1978 general · November 7, 1978

1978 New Hampshire election results

Every race on New Hampshire's ballot in the 1978 general election: winners, margins and seats that changed party.

Races189

Changed party8

Unopposed32%60 races

Incumbents defeated19

U.S. Senate

R 1

Race	Winner	Won by	Notes
New Hampshire	Gordon Humphrey (R)	2.2

D 1

Race	Winner	Won by	Notes
New Hampshire	Hugh J. Gallen (D)	4.0	Flipped

D 1 · R 1

Race	Winner	Won by	Notes
NH-1	Norman E. D'Amours (D)	25.0
NH-2	James C. Cleveland (R)	36.3

D 12 · R 12 · 4 changed party

Race	Winner	Won by	Notes
SD-1	Laurier Lamontagne (D)	23.1
SD-2	Andrew W. Poulsen (R)	Unopposed
SD-3	Raymond K. Conley Jr. (R)	46.5
SD-4	Edith B. Gardner (R)	32.6
SD-5	Ralph Degnan Hough (R)	18.1
SD-6	Louis E. Bergeron (D)	43.5
SD-7	Peter H. Allen (D)	0.1	Flipped
SD-8	James Saggiotes (R)	Unopposed
SD-9	Robert B. Monier (R)	26.1
SD-10	Clesson J. Blaisdell (D)	27.6
SD-11	Arthur F. Mann (R)	32.0
SD-12	D. Alan Rock (R)	15.1
SD-13	John H. McLaughlin (D)	Unopposed
SD-14	Thomas Claveau (D)	0.2	FlippedIncumbent lost
SD-15	Mary Louise Hancock (D)	13.9
SD-16	Frank A. Wageman (R)	14.4	Flipped
SD-17	William E. Sanborn (R)	20.1
SD-18	Paul E. Provost (D)	30.5
SD-19	Ward B. Brown (R)	34.3
SD-20	Norman Champagne (D)	25.7
SD-21	Robert Fennelly (D)	25.2
SD-22	Vesta M. Roy (R)	16.6	Flipped
SD-23	Robert F. Preston (D)	20.7
SD-24	James R. Splaine (D)	13.2

D 175 · R 224 · Other 1 · 3 changed party

Results are each source's final count; margins are the winner's lead over the runner-up in points of the vote. Source: English Wikipedia; Harvard Dataverse / Carl Klarner; MIT Election Data and Science Lab