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1978 general · November 7, 1978

1978 Wisconsin State Assembly election results, district by district

Every Wisconsin State Assembly district in the 1978 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.

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Seats after the election

Democrats controlled the chamber · 99 seats

After the electionD 60 · R 39
Races99
Changed party14
Unopposed20%20 races
Incumbents defeated7

Every district

D 60 · R 39

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
AD-1Lary J. Swoboda (D)31.5
AD-2Francis J. Lallensack (D)28.9
AD-3Daniel Fischer (D)31.9
AD-4Gary T. Dilweg (R)15.0
AD-5William J. Rogers (D)Unopposed
AD-6Gervase Hephner (D)12.7
AD-7Kevin Soucie (D)31.0
AD-8John O. Norquist (D)61.0
AD-9Phillip J. Tuczynski (D)66.7
AD-10Rod Johnston (R)44.4
AD-11Gus G. Menos (D)18.0
AD-12John Merkt (R)51.2
AD-13Michael Kirby (D)36.7
AD-14Robert E. Behnke (D)7.9
AD-15James W. Wahner (D)Unopposed
AD-16William B. Broydrick (D)67.6
AD-17Walter L. Ward (D)84.8
AD-18Marcia P. Coggs (D)Unopposed
AD-19Louise M. Tesmer (D)42.7
AD-20John R. Plewa (D)Unopposed
AD-21Chester A. Gerlach (D)50.5
AD-22George H. Klicka (R)40.7
AD-23Thomas A. Hauke (D)26.3
AD-24Gary J. Barczak (D)44.9
AD-25Barbara Ulichny (D)Unopposed
AD-26Stephen R. Leopold (D)Unopposed
AD-27Joseph C. Czerwinski (D)Unopposed
AD-28David Paulson (R)4.5Flipped
AD-29Robert Harer (R)2.9Flipped
AD-30James E. Harsdorf (R)15.6Flipped
AD-31Mordecai Lee (D)Unopposed
AD-32Dismas Becker (D)87.0
AD-33Richard E. Pabst (D)Unopposed
AD-34Robert J. Larson (R)11.4FlippedIncumbent lost
AD-35Sheehan Donoghue (R)10.1
AD-36Lloyd H. Kincaid (D)2.1Flipped
AD-37David Travis (D)39.2
AD-38Harland E. Everson (D)31.9
AD-39Milton Lorman (R)Unopposed
AD-40Francis R. Byers (R)54.9
AD-41Ervin Conradt (R)42.0
AD-42David T. Prosser Jr. (R)32.2
AD-43Cloyd A. Porter (R)Unopposed
AD-44Delmar E. Delong (R)40.5
AD-45Gary K. Johnson (D)15.2
AD-46Thomas A. Loftus (D)20.5
AD-47Jonathan B. Barry (D)8.9
AD-48Wayne W. Wood (D)30.1
AD-49Robert S. Travis (R)Unopposed
AD-50Joanne M. Duren (D)3.8
AD-51Joseph E. Tregoning (R)Unopposed
AD-52Earl McEssy (R)34.4
AD-53James R. Lewis (R)Unopposed
AD-54Esther Doughty Luckhardt (R)25.7
AD-55Michael G. Ellis (R)38.4
AD-56Richard A. Flintrop (D)21.9
AD-57Gordon Bradley (R)2.0
AD-58Carl Otte (D)Unopposed
AD-59Calvin Potter (D)20.5
AD-60David W. Opitz (R)37.6
AD-61James F. Rooney (D)37.8
AD-62R. Michael Ferrall (D)32.3
AD-63E. James Ladwig (R)6.6FlippedIncumbent lost
AD-64Joseph Andrea (D)Unopposed
AD-65Eugene Dorff (D)Unopposed
AD-66Mary K. Wagner (D)11.0Flipped
AD-67David Hopkins (R)2.6FlippedIncumbent lost
AD-68William P. Gaggin (R)0.2FlippedIncumbent lost
AD-69Richard Shoemaker (D)1.8Flipped
AD-70Donald W. Hasenohrl (D)3.9
AD-71David Helbach (D)20.0
AD-72Patricia A. Goodrich (R)55.8
AD-73Thomas B. Murray (D)40.1
AD-74David R. Kedrowski (D)12.2
AD-75Patricia Spafford Smith (D)4.3Flipped
AD-76Mary Lou Munts (D)Unopposed
AD-77Marjorie M. Miller (D)22.4
AD-78David E. Clarenbach (D)46.3
AD-79Tommy G. Thompson (R)53.0
AD-80James F. Laatsch (R)2.3FlippedIncumbent lost
AD-81Randall J. Radtke (R)6.8FlippedIncumbent lost
AD-82James A. Rutkowski (D)13.0
AD-83John C. Shabaz (R)37.4
AD-84Harry G. Snyder (R)22.3
AD-85Edward F. McClain (D)9.8
AD-86Raymond Omernick (R)3.8FlippedIncumbent lost
AD-87Earl Schmidt (R)48.0
AD-88Richard P. Matty (R)38.2
AD-89Cletus Vanderperren (D)29.1
AD-90Sharon K. Metz (D)23.9
AD-91Steven Gunderson (R)47.0
AD-92Robert L. Quackenbush (R)30.5
AD-93Marlin Schneider (D)6.4
AD-94Virgil Roberts (D)1.4
AD-95John D. Medinger (D)1.7
AD-96Bernard Lewison (R)15.9
AD-97Ronald Lingren (D)6.4
AD-98Edward G. Jackamonis (D)Unopposed
AD-99John M. Young (R)Unopposed

Wisconsin State Assembly

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