1978Flipped from DemocraticFinal results
1978 election for Pennsylvania Senate District 26
Pennsylvania State Senate · Pennsylvania
F. Joseph Loeper (R) won with 52.8% of the vote, defeating Joseph Ted Doyle (D) by 5.6 points, a seat Democrats won last time.
F. Joseph LoeperRepublican · winner
52.8%45,147
Joseph Ted DoyleDemocrat
47.2%40,389
85,536 votes
Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl KlarnerUpdated Sep 30, 2026, 7:29 AM ET
The seat over time
D − R margin in this seat's races around 1978
Races before and after
Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl KlarnerUpdated Sep 30, 2026, 7:29 AM ET