1981 general · November 3, 1981
1981 Virginia House of Delegates election results, district by district
Every Virginia House of Delegates district in the 1981 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.
Seats after the election
Democrats controlled the chamber · 100 seats
After the electionD 66 · R 33 · 1 other
Races49
Changed party7
Unopposed27%13 races
Incumbents defeated9
Every district
D 66 · R 33 · Other 1
| Race | Winner | Won by | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| HD-1 | Orby L. Cantrell · Ford C. Quillen (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-2 | Joseph A. Johnson · G. C. Jennings (D) | 3.1 | |
| HD-3 | William F. Green · Donald A. McGlothlin (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-4 | A. A. Campbell (D) | 34.6 | |
| HD-5 | Joan H. Munford · C. Jefferson Stafford · W. Ward Teel (DEM) | 0.1 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-6 | A. Victor Thomas · Clifton A. Woodrum (D) | 34.2 | |
| HD-7 | C. Richard Cranwell · G. Steven Agee (DEM) | 1.4 | |
| HD-8 | William T. Wilson (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-9 | James A. Davis · Lacey E. Putney (DEM) | Unopposed | |
| HD-10 | A. R. Giesen Jr. · A. Ray Hull (R) | 4.8 | |
| HD-11 | S. Vance Wilkins Jr. · Joseph P. Crouch (R) | 5.0 | |
| HD-12 | Mary Sue Terry · A. L. Philpott (D) | 16.7 | |
| HD-13 | Charles R. Hawkins · Kenneth E. Calvert · William A. Beeton Jr. (R) | 6.3 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-14 | Franklin M. Slayton (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-15 | I. Clinton Miller · Kevin G. Miller (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-16 | Alson H. Smith Jr. (D) | Unopposed | Flipped |
| HD-17 | Kenneth B. Rollins (R) | 7.3 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-18 | Raymond R. Guest Jr. (R) | 18.0 | |
| HD-19 | George P. Beard Jr. (R) | 35.9 | |
| HD-20 | Thomas M. Moncure Jr. (R) | 9.0 | FlippedIncumbent lost |
| HD-21 | Bernard S. Cohen · Marian A. Vanlandingham (D) | 1.7 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-22 | Mary A. Marshall · James F. Almand · Warren G. Stambaugh (D) | 6.1 | |
| HD-23 | David G. Brickley · Harry J. Parrish · Floyd C. Bagley (DEM) | 0.1 | |
| HD-24 | Mitchell Vanyahres · James B. Murray (D) | 21.9 | |
| HD-25 | Claude W. Anderson (D) | Unopposed | Flipped |
| HD-26 | Lewis W. Parker Jr. (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-27 | R. Beasley Jones · Norman Sisisky (D) | 13.7 | |
| HD-29 | V. Earl Dickinson (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-30 | Robert W. Ackerman (D) | 11.2 | |
| HD-32 | Ralph L. Axselle Jr. · Frank D. Hargrove Sr. · Robert B. Ball Sr. · Robison B. James (DEM) | 0.1 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-33 | Franklin P. Hall · Walter H. Emroch · James S. Christian Jr. · Benjamin J. Lambert III (D) | 15.2 | |
| HD-34 | George W. Jones · John C. Watkins · Robert E. Russell (R) | 1.0 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-35 | C. Hardaway Marks (D) | 30.2 | |
| HD-36 | Frederick H. Creekmore · V. Thomas Forehand Jr. (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-37 | William P. Robinson Jr. · Thomas W. Moss Jr. · George H. Heilig · Edythe C. Harrison · Robert E. Washington (D) | 10.0 | |
| HD-38 | Owen Pickett · W. R. Obrien · Glenn McClanan · Melvin M. Spence · Joseph William Obrien Jr. (DEM) | 0.3 | |
| HD-39 | John S. Joannou · L. Cleaves Manning (D) | 6.6 | |
| HD-41 | J. Samuel Glasscock · J. Paul Councill Jr. (D) | 12.8 | |
| HD-42 | Rob Bloxom (R) | Unopposed | Flipped |
| HD-43 | W. Tayloe Murphy Jr. (D) | 27.9 | |
| HD-44 | Harvey B. Morgan (R) | 8.4 | Flipped |
| HD-45 | Richard M. Bagley · S. Wallace Stieffen (D) | 10.6 | |
| HD-46 | George W. Grayson (D) | Unopposed | Flipped |
| HD-47 | Thomas E. Glascock (D) | 6.6 | Flipped |
| HD-48 | Theodore V. Morrison Jr. · Alan Diamonstein · Bobby Scott (D) | 23.0 | |
| HD-49 | Vincent F. Callahan · Robert T. Andrews · Gwendalyn F. Cody (R) | 2.0 | |
| HD-50 | John H. Rust Jr. · Dorothy McDiarmid · Kenneth Plum (REP) | 1.6 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-51 | Vivian Watts · Robert E. Harris · James E. Dillard (DEM) | 2.8 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-52 | Gladys B. Keating · Warren E. Barry · Frank Medico (DEM) | 1.2 |
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