1980 general · November 4, 1980
1980 Florida House of Representatives election results, district by district
Every Florida House of Representatives district in the 1980 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.
Seats after the election
Democrats controlled the chamber · 120 seats
After the electionD 81 · R 39
Races45
Changed party0
Unopposed71%32 races
Incumbents defeated3
Every district
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 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