1979 general · October 27, 1979

1979 Virginia House of Delegates election results, district by district

Every Virginia House of Delegates 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 74 · R 25 · 1 other
Races52
Changed party1
Unopposed38%20 races
Incumbents defeated3

Every district

D 74 · R 25 · Other 1

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
HD-1Ford C. Quillen · Orby L. Cantrell (D)Unopposed
HD-2W. L. Lemmon · Joseph A. Johnson (D)Unopposed
HD-3Donald A. McGlothlin · William F. Green (D)5.6
HD-4A. A. Campbell (D)22.6
HD-5C. Jefferson Stafford (R)6.7
HD-6W. Ward Teel · Jerry H. Geisler (R)2.1
HD-7A. Victor Thomas · Clifton A. Woodrum (D)8.3
HD-8Raymond R. Robrecht · C. Richard Cranwell (REP)13.8
HD-9Lacey E. Putney · James A. Davis (IND)15.0
HD-10William T. Wilson (D)34.7
HD-11Joan S. Jones · S. Vance Wilkins Jr. (DEM)8.7
HD-12Joseph P. Crouch (R)Unopposed
HD-13Mary Sue Terry · A. L. Philpott · Claude V. Swanson (D)9.0
HD-14Calvin W. Fowler (D)Unopposed
HD-15Erwin Shad Solomon · A. R. Giesen Jr. (DEM)Unopposed
HD-16I. Clinton Miller · Kevin G. Miller (R)1.5
HD-17Alson H. Smith Jr. · Raymond R. Guest Jr. (DEM)18.4
HD-18Vincent F. Callahan · Martin H. Perper · Dorothy McDiarmid · John S. Buckley · John H. Rust Jr. (REP)0.5Incumbent lost
HD-19Warren E. Barry · Robert E. Harris · James E. Dillard · Gladys B. Keating · Lawrence D. Pratt (REP)0.6Incumbent lost
HD-20David G. Brickley · Earl E. Bell · Floyd C. Bagley (D)2.6
HD-21David G. Speck · Bernard S. Cohen (REP)1.3
HD-22Mary A. Marshall · Warren G. Stambaugh · James F. Almand (D)6.3
HD-23Elise B. Heinz (D)58.1
HD-24Lewis P. Fickett Jr. · D. Wayne Obryan (D)Unopposed
HD-25George P. Beard Jr. (R)72.0
HD-26Thomas J. Michie Jr. · James B. Murray (D)4.4
HD-27Claude W. Anderson (D)Unopposed
HD-28Franklin M. Slayton (D)32.7
HD-29Lewis W. Parker Jr. (D)Unopposed
HD-30Norman Sisisky (D)Unopposed
HD-31R. Beasley Jones (D)7.5
HD-32V. Earl Dickinson (D)Unopposed
HD-33Franklin P. Hall · George E. Allen Jr. · Walter H. Emroch · Benjamin J. Lambert III · James S. Christian Jr. (D)0.3
HD-34Ralph L. Axselle Jr. · Robert B. Ball Sr. · Robison B. James (D)1.3
HD-35Gerald L. Baliles (D)80.1
HD-36George W. Jones · Alexander B. McMurtrie (REP)Unopposed
HD-37C. Hardaway Marks (D)Unopposed
HD-38Frederick H. Creekmore · V. Thomas Forehand Jr. (D)Unopposed
HD-39William P. Robinson Sr. · Thomas W. Moss Jr. · George H. Heilig · Evelyn M. Hailey · Edythe C. Harrison · Robert E. Washington · Howard E. Copeland (D)2.9
HD-40W. R. Obrien · Owen Pickett · Glenn McClanan (REP)0.5Incumbent lost
HD-41John S. Joannou · L. Cleaves Manning (D)Unopposed
HD-42Joseph William Obrien Jr. (D)22.4
HD-43J. Samuel Glasscock (D)Unopposed
HD-44J. Paul Councill Jr. (D)Unopposed
HD-45L. Ray Ashworth (D)26.7
HD-46Rob Bloxom (R)Unopposed
HD-47Calvin G. Sanford (R)Unopposed
HD-48Harvey B. Morgan (R)17.9Flipped
HD-49Theodore V. Morrison Jr. · Alan Diamonstein · Bobby Scott (D)5.9
HD-50Richard M. Bagley · John D. Gray (D)Unopposed
HD-51George W. Grayson (D)20.7
HD-52S. Wallace Stieffen (D)Unopposed

Virginia House of Delegates

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