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1979 general · October 27, 1979

1979 Kentucky House of Representatives election results, district by district

Every Kentucky House of Representatives district in the 1979 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.

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Seats after the election

Democrats controlled the chamber · 100 seats

After the electionD 75 · R 25
Races100
Changed party3
Unopposed60%60 races
Incumbents defeated3

Every district

D 75 · R 25

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
HD-1Ward Burnette (D)Unopposed
HD-2Lloyd Clapp (D)Unopposed
HD-3Alice McNutt (D)Unopposed
HD-4Joel Ellington (D)Unopposed
HD-5Freed Curd (D)Unopposed
HD-6J. R. Gray (D)Unopposed
HD-7David E. Boswell (D)Unopposed
HD-8H. Ramsey Morris Jr. (D)Unopposed
HD-9James E. Bruce (D)Unopposed
HD-10William T. Brinkley (D)Unopposed
HD-11David H. Thomason (D)Unopposed
HD-12Roy Joe Head (D)Unopposed
HD-13Louis Johnson (D)Unopposed
HD-14Donald J. Blandford (D)Unopposed
HD-15Philip Stone (D)Unopposed
HD-16Lewis Foster (D)Unopposed
HD-17Willard Allen (R)Unopposed
HD-18Mary Ann Tobin (D)Unopposed
HD-19Ronny Layman (R)Unopposed
HD-20Jody Richards (D)Unopposed
HD-21Buddy Adams (D)Unopposed
HD-22Richard A. Turner (R)16.3FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-23Bobby H. Richardson (D)Unopposed
HD-24Sam B. Thomas (D)22.8
HD-25Allene A. Craddock (D)26.1
HD-26Virgil Pearman (D)Unopposed
HD-27Archie N. Romanies Sr. (D)43.7
HD-28James R. Dunn (D)22.4
HD-29Al Bennett (D)26.9
HD-30Thomas J. Burch (D)40.3
HD-31Mark Obrien (D)9.5
HD-32E. Bruce Blythe Jr. (R)22.9
HD-33Bob Heleringer (R)4.7FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-34Gerta Bendl (D)16.3
HD-35Carl A. Nett (D)Unopposed
HD-36Claudia Riner (D)40.1
HD-37Paul Clark (D)18.6
HD-38Dexter S. Wright (R)3.4
HD-39Lawrence Ray Maynard (D)2.7
HD-40Jerry Bronger (D)43.3
HD-41Mae Streetkidd (D)67.2
HD-42Aubrey Williams (D)72.9
HD-43Carl R. Hines (D)73.5
HD-44James Bernard Yates (D)Unopposed
HD-45Dottie Priddy (D)37.6
HD-46Harold Haering (R)1.2
HD-47Edward L. Holloway (R)10.4
HD-48Louie Guenthner Jr. (R)28.4
HD-49Frank J. Smith (D)35.9
HD-50Kenny Rapier (D)Unopposed
HD-51Herman W. Ratliff (R)19.5
HD-52Raymond Overstreet (R)Unopposed
HD-53Richard Fryman (R)33.9
HD-54Joe Clarke (D)Unopposed
HD-55Forest Sale (D)Unopposed
HD-56Joe Barrows (D)Unopposed
HD-57C. M. Hancock (D)Unopposed
HD-58W. Stephen Wilborn (D)Unopposed
HD-59Bob Jones (D)Unopposed
HD-60William K. McBee (D)24.5
HD-61Clay Crupper (D)Unopposed
HD-62Mark Farrow (D)Unopposed
HD-63Louis Defalaise (R)31.1
HD-64Charles O. Petty (D)33.7
HD-65John J. Isler (D)34.8
HD-66Barry Caldwell (R)10.5FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-67Terry Mann (D)Unopposed
HD-68William Donnermeyer (D)Unopposed
HD-69Arthur L. Schmidt (R)Unopposed
HD-70Pete Worthington (D)Unopposed
HD-71Woodford F. May (D)Unopposed
HD-72Jim Lemaster (D)Unopposed
HD-73Paul W. Richardson (D)46.3
HD-74Adrian Arnold (D)55.7
HD-75William Kenton (D)Unopposed
HD-76Jerry Lundergan (D)Unopposed
HD-77David Vanhorn (D)Unopposed
HD-78Pat Freibert (R)Unopposed
HD-79Henry Clay List (D)Unopposed
HD-80William Harold Demarcus (R)Unopposed
HD-81Harry Moberly Jr. (D)9.4
HD-82Elvin Elmer Patrick (R)Unopposed
HD-83Marshall Davenport (R)Unopposed
HD-84Lloyd McKinney (R)Unopposed
HD-85Albert Robinson (R)Unopposed
HD-86Jimmy White (D)23.2
HD-87Stephen C. Cawood (D)4.6
HD-88Roger Noe (D)Unopposed
HD-89Russell Reynolds (D)Unopposed
HD-90Phillip Lewis (R)Unopposed
HD-91Hoover Dawahare (D)Unopposed
HD-92Bill Weinberg (D)Unopposed
HD-93N. Clayton Little (D)Unopposed
HD-94Herbert J. Deskins Jr. (D)Unopposed
HD-95Gregory D. Stumbo (D)Unopposed
HD-96George M. Plummer (R)6.9
HD-97W. D. Blair (R)17.8
HD-98Ronald R. Cyrus (D)31.1
HD-99Ray O. Brown (D)Unopposed
HD-100Charles R. Holbrook (R)8.0

Kentucky 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