1980 general · November 4, 1980

1980 North Carolina House of Representatives election results, district by district

Every North Carolina House of Representatives 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 · 120 seats

After the electionD 96 · R 24
Races45
Changed party1
Unopposed24%11 races
Incumbents defeated8

Every district

D 96 · R 24

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
HD-1Vernon G. James · Charles D. Evans (D)33.0
HD-2Howard B. Chapin (D)14.4
HD-3Gerald Anderson · Daniel T. Lilley · Chris S. Barker Jr. (D)10.9
HD-4Bruce Ethridge · A. D. Guy · G. Malcolm Fulcher Jr. (D)3.3
HD-5John B. Gilliam III · C. Melvin Creecy (D)Unopposed
HD-6George Hux · William D. Harrison (D)Unopposed
HD-7Roger W. Bone · Allen C. Barbee · Josephus L. Mavretic · Jeanne Fenner (D)12.0
HD-8Sam Bundy · Edward N. Warren (D)12.9
HD-9Richard R. Grady · Martin Lancaster (D)Unopposed
HD-10Douglas A. Clark (D)34.5
HD-11Tom B. Rabon Jr. (D)28.1
HD-12S. Thomas Rhodes · Harry E. Payne Jr. (REP)2.9Incumbent lost
HD-13John T. Church · William T. Watkins · T. W. Ellis Jr. (D)Unopposed
HD-14Jack M. Gardner · John M. Radford (D)15.1
HD-15Ruth E. Cook · Wilma Woodard · Marvin D. Musselwhite Jr. · Allen Adams · Aaron E. Fussell · Dan Blue (D)3.3
HD-16George W. Miller Jr. · Paul Pulley · Kenneth B. Spaulding (D)Unopposed
HD-17Patricia Hunt · Joe Hackney (D)25.4
HD-18Dennis A. Wicker · Bob Etheridge (D)Unopposed
HD-19Richard Wright · Edd Nye · Ron Taylor (D)13.1
HD-20Lura Tally · R. D. Beard · Charles Holt · William E. Clark · Henry M. Tyson (D)4.1
HD-21David Parnell · Horace Locklear · William C. Gay (D)Unopposed
HD-22John M. Jordan · Bertha Holt · Timothy H. McDowell · Robert L. McAlister (D)2.6
HD-23Howard Coble · Margaret P. Keeseeforrester · Ralph P. Edwards · James F. Morgan · Mary P. Seymour · Dorothy R. Burnley · Byron Haworth (REP)0.2
HD-24Harold J. Brubaker · W. Frank Redding III (R)10.8
HD-25James M. Craven (R)4.0FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-26Foyle Hightower Jr. (D)Unopposed
HD-27Thomas B. Hunter (D)32.6
HD-28William Hiatt · David H. Diamont · Margaret Hayden (REP)0.5Incumbent lost
HD-29Margaret Tennille · Richard Barnes · Ted Kaplan · Mary N. Pegg · Ned R. Smith (DEM)0.2
HD-30Betsy L. Cochrane · Joe H. Hege Jr. · Melvin L. Stamey (R)2.4Incumbent lost
HD-31Bradford V. Ligon · Robie L. Nash (REP)0.8Incumbent lost
HD-32Ellis Almond (R)9.6
HD-33Dwight G. Quinn · Aaron W. Plyler · Betty Dorton Thomas (D)1.2
HD-34George M. Holmes · George Robinson · John W. Brown (R)5.0Incumbent lost
HD-35J. P. Huskins · C. Robert Brawley (DEM)0.1Incumbent lost
HD-36Jo Graham Foster · Parks Helms · J. B. Black · Ben Tison · Roy Spoon · Ruth M. Easterling · Louise S. Brennan · Gus Economos (DEM)0.2
HD-37Austin M. Allran · J. Reid Poovey (R)8.3
HD-38E. Graham Bell · David W. Bumgardner Jr. · Sam Beam · D. R. Mauney Jr. (D)-7.0
HD-39S. B. Lacey Jr. · James F. Hughes (R)2.6Incumbent lost
HD-40John J. Hunt · Edith L. Lutz · Robert Jones (D)Unopposed
HD-41Robert C. Hunter (D)Unopposed
HD-42Charles H. Hughes (R)16.2
HD-43Marie W. Colton · Gordon H. Greenwood · Martin L. Nesbitt · Narvel J. Crawford (D)1.4
HD-44Ernest B. Messer · Liston B. Ramsey (D)Unopposed
HD-45Jeff H. Enloe Jr. (D)3.5

North Carolina 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