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1979 general · October 27, 1979

1979 Louisiana State Senate election results, district by district

Every Louisiana State Senate 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 · 39 seats

After the electionD 39 · R 0
Races39
Changed party0
Unopposed15%6 races
Incumbents defeated6

Every district

D 31 · Uncalled 8

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
SD-1Samuel B. Nunez (D)Unopposed
SD-2Nat Kiefer (D)74.8
SD-3Theodore M. Hickey (D)64.0
SD-4Henry E. Braden IV (D)Unopposed
SD-5Michael H. Okeefe (D)Unopposed
SD-6No winner recorded—Incumbent lost
SD-7Thomas A. Casey (D)Unopposed
SD-8Fritz Windhorst (D)Unopposed
SD-9Elwyn H. Nicholson (D)39.0
SD-10M. Joe Tiemann (D)30.3
SD-11Francis Lauricella (D)34.6
SD-12B. B. Rayburn (D)49.0
SD-13No winner recorded—Incumbent lost
SD-14No winner recorded—Incumbent lost
SD-15Thomas H. Hudson (D)36.1
SD-16Kenneth E. Osterberger (D)67.0
SD-17J. E. Jumonville (D)69.4
SD-18Joe Sevario (D)51.7
SD-19Ron Landry (D)14.1
SD-20Leonard Chabert (D)42.2
SD-21Anthony J. Guarisco Jr. (D)Unopposed
SD-22Oswald Decuir (D)37.3
SD-23No winner recorded—
SD-24Armand J. Brinkhaus (D)48.1
SD-25Cecil Picard (D)62.9
SD-26No winner recorded—
SD-27William L. McLeod Jr. (D)37.2
SD-28John Saunders (D)11.7
SD-29Edward G. Randolph Jr. (D)41.6
SD-30Bryan A. Poston (D)41.8
SD-31Donald G. Kelly (D)56.5
SD-32No winner recorded—
SD-33David Ginn (D)1.2Incumbent lost
SD-34No winner recorded—Incumbent lost
SD-35Charles Barham (D)52.3
SD-36Foster Campbell Jr. (D)51.4
SD-37Sydney B. Nelson (D)27.6
SD-38Richard Neeson (D)27.4Incumbent lost
SD-39No winner recorded—

Louisiana State Senate

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