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1982 general · November 2, 1982

1982 Illinois State Senate election results, district by district

Every Illinois State Senate district in the 1982 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.

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Seats after the election

Democrats controlled the chamber · 59 seats

After the electionD 33 · R 26
Races59
Changed party0
Unopposed20%12 races
Incumbents defeated4

Every district

D 33 · R 26

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
LD-1Howard W. Carroll (D)42.9
LD-2Arthur L. Berman (D)Unopposed
LD-3William A. Marovitz (D)Unopposed
LD-4Dawn Clark Netsch (D)Unopposed
LD-5Edward A. Nedza (D)Unopposed
LD-6Thaddeus Lechowicz (D)Unopposed
LD-7Robert J. Egan (D)35.4
LD-8Philip J. Rock (D)48.2
LD-9Earlean Collins (D)Unopposed
LD-10John A. Darco Jr. (D)Unopposed
LD-11Timothy F. Degnan (D)69.8
LD-12Margaret Smith (D)Unopposed
LD-13Richard H. Newhouse (D)Unopposed
LD-14Jeremiah E. Joyce (D)25.9
LD-15Frank D. Savicaks (D)31.7
LD-16Charles Chew (D)Unopposed
LD-17Emil Jones Jr. (D)68.4
LD-18Glenn V. Dawson (D)Unopposed
LD-19William F. Mahar (R)37.7
LD-20Beverly Fawell (R)39.7
LD-21Forest D. Etheredge (R)23.1
LD-22Leonard F. Becker (R)25.8
LD-23James Philip (R)28.2
LD-24Leroy Walter Lemke (D)4.9
LD-25John E. Grotberg (R)24.8
LD-26Greg Zito (D)28.4Incumbent lost
LD-27Virginia B. Macdonald (R)48.2
LD-28Bob Kustra (R)21.4Incumbent lost
LD-29Roger A. Keats (R)15.4
LD-30David Barkhausen (R)27.6
LD-31Adeline Jay Geokaris (R)31.4
LD-32Jack Schaffer (R)42.4
LD-33John E. Friedland (R)40.3
LD-34Joyce Holmberg (D)11.0
LD-35Harlan Rigney (R)6.9Incumbent lost
LD-36Clarence A. Darrow (D)24.4Incumbent lost
LD-37Calvin W. Schuneman (R)6.7
LD-38Patrick D. Welch (D)4.9
LD-39Richard F. Kelly Jr. (D)32.6
LD-40Aldo A. Deangelis (R)29.3
LD-41George Hudson (R)30.3
LD-42George Sangmeister (D)40.3
LD-43Jerome J. Joyce (D)19.5
LD-44John W. Maitland Jr. (R)35.4
LD-45Roger A. Sommer (R)Unopposed
LD-46Richard Luft (D)1.7
LD-47Prescott E. Bloom (R)28.6
LD-48Laura Kent (R)9.7
LD-49Vince Demuzio (D)25.0
LD-50John A. Davidson (R)27.8
LD-51James H. Rupp (R)11.5
LD-52Stanley B. Weaver (R)20.7
LD-53Max E. Coffey (R)16.5
LD-54Terry L. Bruce (D)27.7
LD-55Frank Watson (R)16.2
LD-56Sam M. Vadalabene (D)51.3
LD-57Kenneth Hall (D)18.7
LD-58Kenneth V. Buzbee (D)13.0
LD-59Gene Johns (D)9.6

Illinois State Senate

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