1980 general · November 4, 1980

1980 California State Assembly election results, district by district

Every California State Assembly district in the 1980 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.

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Seats after the election

Democrats controlled the chamber · 80 seats

After the electionD 48 · R 32
Races80
Changed party6
Unopposed5%4 races
Incumbents defeated4

Every district

D 48 · R 32

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
AD-1Stan Statham (R)69.2
AD-2Douglas Bosco (D)35.0
AD-3Wally Herger (R)14.4
AD-4Thomas M. Hannigan (D)33.3
AD-5Jean Moorhead (R)18.6
AD-6Leroy F. Greene (D)11.4
AD-7Norm Waters (D)12.7
AD-8Don Sebastiani (R)11.7Flipped
AD-9William J. Filante (R)5.9
AD-10William Baker (R)6.6Flipped
AD-11Robert J. Campbell (D)45.7
AD-12Tom Bates (D)27.7
AD-13Elihu M. Harris (D)61.3
AD-14Bill Lockyer (D)Unopposed
AD-15Gilbert R. Marguth Jr. (R)10.6FlippedIncumbent lost
AD-16Art Agnos (D)55.5
AD-17Willie L. Brown (D)29.8
AD-18Leo T. McCarthy (D)52.4
AD-19Louis J. Papan (D)7.7
AD-20Robert W. Naylor (R)46.2
AD-21Byron Sher (D)22.9
AD-22Ernest L. Konnyu (R)16.9
AD-23John Vasconcellos (D)21.9
AD-24Dominic L. Cortese (D)1.2
AD-25Alister McAlister (D)Unopposed
AD-26Patrick Johnston (D)0.0
AD-27John E. Thurman (D)25.0
AD-28Sam Farr (D)15.5
AD-29Carol Hallett (R)Unopposed
AD-30Jim Costa (D)35.3
AD-31Richard Lehman (D)Unopposed
AD-32Gordon Duffy (R)18.4
AD-33Don Rogers (R)33.7
AD-34Phillip D. Wyman (R)46.2
AD-35Gary K. Hart (D)23.4
AD-36Charles R. Imbrecht (R)39.7
AD-37Cathie Wright (R)23.2
AD-38Marian W. Lafollette (R)1.0
AD-39Richard Katz (D)4.7FlippedIncumbent lost
AD-40Tom Bane (D)35.6
AD-41Pat Nolan (R)53.0
AD-42William H. Ivers (R)8.6
AD-43Howard L. Berman (D)31.2
AD-44Meldon Levine (D)41.6
AD-45Herschel Rosenthal (D)36.1
AD-46Mike Roos (D)37.7
AD-47Teresa Hughes (D)71.0
AD-48Maxine Waters (D)65.8
AD-49Gwen Moore (D)70.7
AD-50Curtis R. Tucker (D)52.1
AD-51Marilyn Ryan (R)57.4
AD-52Gerald N. Felando (R)8.7
AD-53Richard E. Floyd (D)10.3FlippedIncumbent lost
AD-54Frank Vicencia (D)57.2
AD-55Richard Alatorre (D)38.7
AD-56Art Torres (D)68.3
AD-57Dave Elder (D)27.0
AD-58Dennis Brown (R)15.2
AD-59Matthew Martínez (D)54.9
AD-60Sally Tanner (D)39.2
AD-61Richard Mountjoy (R)50.3
AD-62William H. Lancaster (R)43.1
AD-63Bruce Young (D)39.9
AD-64Dave Stirling (R)46.4
AD-65Jim Cramer (D)1.9
AD-66Terry Goggin (D)21.2
AD-67Bill Leonard (R)38.6
AD-68Walter M. Ingalls (D)24.1
AD-69Ross Johnson (R)36.5
AD-70John R. Lewis (R)37.3
AD-71Chester B. Wray (D)0.5
AD-72Richard Robinson (D)31.1
AD-73Nolan Frizzelle (R)3.0FlippedIncumbent lost
AD-74Marian Bergeson (R)56.2
AD-75David G. Kelley (R)44.0
AD-76Robert C. Frazee (R)48.9
AD-77Larry Stirling (R)19.1
AD-78Lawrence Kapiloff (D)12.0
AD-79Pete Chacon (D)24.2
AD-80Wadie P. Deddeh (D)25.5

California 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