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1978 general · November 7, 1978

1978 Utah House of Representatives election results, district by district

Every Utah House of Representatives district in the 1978 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.

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Seats after the election

Republicans controlled the chamber · 75 seats

After the electionD 24 · R 51
Races75
Changed party17
Unopposed8%6 races
Incumbents defeated15

Every district

D 24 · R 51

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
HD-1Genevieve Atwood (R)51.7
HD-2Stephen Holbrook (D)14.6
HD-3Jeff Fox (D)4.2
HD-4Robert Sykes (R)8.9FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-5Charles Doane (R)5.5Flipped
HD-6Rey Florez (D)35.6
HD-7G. Lamont Richards (R)21.8
HD-8Orval Harrison (R)37.0
HD-9Kevin Watt (R)8.0FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-10Ennis Starr (D)10.1
HD-11Paul Mecham (R)17.4Flipped
HD-12Joe Whitesides (R)33.4
HD-13John Hollinghaus (R)9.6FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-14Charles Parkin (R)22.2
HD-15Samuel Taylor (D)19.0
HD-16Bruce Humberstone (R)14.0
HD-17Gary Brockbank (R)96.6
HD-18Lorin Pace (R)41.6
HD-19T. Quentin Cannon (R)26.2
HD-20Ray Free (R)8.7FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-21Sherman Harmer (R)21.8
HD-22Georgia Peterson (R)33.3
HD-23Merrill Harward (R)43.1
HD-24John Howe (R)5.3FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-25Roger A. Livingston (R)28.6
HD-26Dix McMullin (R)38.5
HD-27William Hawkes (R)0.2FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-28Leon Christiansen (R)12.8
HD-29E. Reed Palmer (R)4.3FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-30Norman H. Bangerter (R)25.2
HD-31Duayne Johnson (D)30.9
HD-32D. Leon Reese (D)33.4
HD-33Neal Evans (R)5.6FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-34Paul Rogers (R)12.6FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-35Stanley Leavitt (D)2.4
HD-36Leray McAllister (R)Unopposed
HD-37Lee Farnsworth (R)32.0
HD-38Willard Gardner (R)Unopposed
HD-39Ted Davis (R)14.8
HD-40Don Strong (R)2.0
HD-41Eldon Money (D)25.3
HD-42Ronald Stephens (D)4.5FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-43Keith Wilcox (R)22.4
HD-44Jen Patterson (D)11.4
HD-45John Arrington (D)15.9
HD-46Marvin Heslop (D)8.0
HD-47C. Demontjudd Jr. (D)3.5
HD-48Carl R. Saunders (R)13.5FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-49Roger Rawson (D)19.3
HD-50Lowell Peterson (R)11.2FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-51Warren Wimmer (D)12.8
HD-52Clifford Lefevre (D)Unopposed
HD-53Franklin Knowlton (R)28.2
HD-54James Hansen (R)57.6
HD-55Paul Lloyd Selleneit (R)20.4
HD-56David R. Irvine (R)47.0
HD-57Robert Garff (R)44.0
HD-58Norman Wahlstrom (R)56.8
HD-59Keith Jorgensen (R)60.8
HD-60Evan Olsen (R)19.9
HD-61Rob Bishop (R)50.1
HD-62James White (D)17.6FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-63John Smith (D)Unopposed
HD-64Beverly White (D)30.5
HD-65Mike Dmitrich (D)Unopposed
HD-66Glen Brown (R)38.8
HD-67Lorin E. Allred (D)47.1FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-68Gayle McKeachnie (R)49.7
HD-69Ray Nielsen (D)12.2
HD-70John Garr (D)14.8
HD-71Cary G. Peterson (R)Unopposed
HD-72Tom Christensen (R)11.3FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-73Charles Redd (R)17.3
HD-74S. Garth Jones (R)57.2
HD-75Ray Schmutz (R)32.1

Utah House of Representatives

Results are each source's final count; margins are the winner's lead over the runner-up in points of the vote. Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl Klarner