1980 general · November 4, 1980
1980 Florida election results
Every race on Florida's ballot in the 1980 general election: winners, margins and seats that changed party.
Races78
Changed party5
Unopposed53%41 races
Incumbents defeated4
President
R 1
| Race | Winner | Won by | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | Ronald Reagan (R) | 17.0 |
U.S. Senate
R 1
| Race | Winner | Won by | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | Paula Hawkins (R) | 3.3 |
U.S. House
D 11 · R 4 · 1 changed party
| Race | Winner | Won by | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| FL-1 | Earl Hutto (D) | 22.4 | |
| FL-2 | Don Fuqua (D) | 41.2 | |
| FL-3 | Charles Bennett (D) | 54.1 | |
| FL-4 | Bill Chappell (D) | 31.5 | |
| FL-5 | Bill McCollum (R) | 11.5 | |
| FL-6 | C. W. Bill Young (R) | Unopposed | |
| FL-7 | Sam Gibbons (D) | 43.5 | |
| FL-8 | Andrew Ireland (D) | 41.0 | |
| FL-9 | Bill Nelson (D) | 40.7 | |
| FL-10 | L. A. "skip" Bafalis (R) | 57.9 | |
| FL-11 | Dan Mica (D) | 18.9 | |
| FL-12 | Clay Shaw (R) | 9.1 | Flipped |
| FL-13 | William Lehman (D) | 49.8 | |
| FL-14 | Claude Pepper (D) | 49.9 | |
| FL-15 | Dante Fascell (D) | 30.7 |
Florida State Senate
D 12 · R 8 · 4 changed party
| Race | Winner | Won by | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| SD-1 | W. D. Childers (D) | Unopposed | Flipped |
| SD-3 | Dempsey J. Barron (D) | 14.2 | |
| SD-5 | Sherill Skinner (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-7 | Dan Jenkins · Mattox Hair (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-11 | Richard H. Langley (R) | 11.6 | |
| SD-12 | Alan Trask (D) | 3.0 | |
| SD-14 | Toni Jennings (R) | 12.4 | Flipped |
| SD-16 | John Vogt (D) | 5.4 | Flipped |
| SD-18 | Gerald S. Rehm (R) | 5.0 | Incumbent lost |
| SD-21 | Pat Frank · David H. McClain (DEM) | Unopposed | |
| SD-25 | Warren S. Henderson (R) | Unopposed | |
| SD-26 | Thomas Lewis (R) | 41.6 | Flipped |
| SD-29 | J. W. Stevens · Jim Scott (R) | Unopposed | |
| SD-33 | John A. Hill (D) | 24.9 | |
| SD-35 | Gwen Margolis · Jack D. Gordon (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-38 | Richard Renick (D) | Unopposed |
Florida House of Representatives
D 81 · R 39
| Race | Winner | Won by | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| HD-1 | Grover C. Robinson III · Tom Patterson · Clyde H. Hagler (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-4 | Bolley Johnson · Ken Boles · James G. Ward (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-7 | Sam Mitchell (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-8 | Ron Johnson (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-9 | Leonard J. Hall (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-10 | James Harold Thompson (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-11 | Don C. Price · Herbert F. Morgan (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-13 | Wayne Hollingsworth (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-14 | Gene Hodges (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-15 | George Crady (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-16 | Arnett Girardeau · John Thomas · John W. Lewis · Andrew E. Johnson · Carl Ogden (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-21 | William G. Bankhead · Steve Pajcic · Tommy Hazouri · Fred Tygart (REP) | Unopposed | |
| HD-25 | Frank Williams (D) | 17.1 | |
| HD-26 | Sidney Martin · Jon Mills (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-28 | Hamilton D. Upchurch (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-29 | Tom Brown · T. K. Wetherell · Samuel P. Bell III (D) | -22.8 | |
| HD-32 | Christian Meffert (D) | 10.3 | |
| HD-33 | Bob Hattaway (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-34 | Bobby Brantley (R) | 44.8 | |
| HD-35 | Everett Kelly (D) | 3.2 | |
| HD-36 | Charles R. Smith (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-37 | Ronald R. Richmond (R) | 38.6 | |
| HD-38 | Dick Batchelor · Richard Crotty · Bruce McEwan · Daniel Webster · Thomas B. Drage Jr. · Fran Carlton (DEM) | -9.7 | |
| HD-44 | Marilyn Evansjones · Jason Steele · W. W. Gardner · Tim Deratany (REP) | Unopposed | |
| HD-48 | R. Dale Patchett (R) | 40.5 | |
| HD-49 | Bob Crawford · Beverly B. Burnsed · Gene Ready · C. Fred Jones (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-53 | Jim Smith · Peter Dunbar · S. Curtis Kiser · Betty Easley (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-57 | Thomas M. Woodruff · Dennis L. Jones · George F. Hieber II · Robert Eugene Melby · Dorothy Sample (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-62 | John A. Grant Jr. · S. L. Clements · Carl Carpenter Jr. · Jim Foster (REP) | Unopposed | |
| HD-66 | George Sheldon · H. Lee Moffitt · Elvin L. Martinez · Richard S. Hodes · Helen Gordon Davis (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-71 | Lawrence F. Shackelford · Ralph H. Haben (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-73 | Thomas E. Danson · Ted Ewing (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-75 | Fred Burrall (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-76 | Charles Nergard (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-77 | William G. Myers (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-78 | Frank S. Messersmith · Jim Watt · Ray Liberti · Eleanor Weinstock · Bernard Kimmel · Reid Moore Jr. (REP) | 1.2 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-84 | Tom Bush · Terry Omalley · Robert M. Woodburn · Linda Cox · Tom Gustafson (REP) | -12.3 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-89 | Mary Ellen Hawkins (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-90 | Franklin Mann · Hugh Paul Nuckolls (DEM) | Unopposed | |
| HD-92 | Tom McPherson · Harold Dyer · Frederick Lippman · Walter C. Young · Lawrence J. Smith · David J. Lehman (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-98 | Elaine Gordon · Barry Kutun · Virginia Rosen · Harold W. Spaet · Michael Friedman · Ronald A. Silver (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-104 | William Hodges · A. M. Fontana · Joe Kershaw · Carrie Meek · Bob Reynolds (D) | -12.8 | |
| HD-109 | Lawrence H. Plummer · Tom Gallagher · Roberta Fox · Joe Gersten · William E. Sadowski · John Plummer (DEM) | 0.2 | |
| HD-115 | Jim Brodie · Scott McPherson · Dexter Lehtinen · Charlie Hall · Larry Hawkins (REP) | -16.2 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-120 | Joe Allen Jr. (D) | Unopposed |
Florida
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; MIT Election Data and Science Lab