1985 general · November 5, 1985

1985 Virginia House of Delegates election results, district by district

Every Virginia House of Delegates district in the 1985 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.

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Seats after the election

Democrats controlled the chamber · 100 seats

After the electionD 65 · R 33 · 2 other
Races100
Changed party4
Unopposed58%58 races
Incumbents defeated2

Every district

D 65 · R 33 · Other 2

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
HD-1Ford C. Quillen (D)27.4
HD-2James B. Robinson (D)11.7
HD-3William F. Green (D)Unopposed
HD-4Donald A. McGlothlin (D)Unopposed
HD-5C. Jefferson Stafford (R)Unopposed
HD-6John C. Brown (R)43.8
HD-7G. C. Jennings (D)5.9
HD-8Charles C. Lacy (D)Unopposed
HD-9Willard R. Finney (D)23.5
HD-10William Roscoe Reynolds (D)25.2
HD-11A. L. Philpott (D)33.2
HD-12J. Robert Dobyns (D)28.0
HD-13Joan H. Munford (D)16.7
HD-14C. Richard Cranwell (D)Unopposed
HD-15G. Steven Agee (R)40.3
HD-16Clifton A. Woodrum (D)62.4
HD-17A. Victor Thomas (D)Unopposed
HD-18William T. Wilson (D)Unopposed
HD-19Lacey E. Putney (IND)Unopposed
HD-20Kenneth E. Calvert (R)Unopposed
HD-21Charles R. Hawkins (R)Unopposed
HD-22Joseph P. Crouch (R)Unopposed
HD-23Royston Jester III (R)Unopposed
HD-24S. Vance Wilkins Jr. (R)14.6
HD-25A. R. Giesen Jr. (R)24.7
HD-26Emmett Wilsonhanger Jr. (R)34.2
HD-27Paul C. Cline (D)6.4FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-28I. Clinton Miller (R)Unopposed
HD-29Alson H. Smith Jr. (D)Unopposed
HD-30George P. Beard Jr. (R)Unopposed
HD-31Raymond R. Guest Jr. (R)Unopposed
HD-32Kenneth B. Rollins (R)12.8
HD-33Robert T. Andrews (R)18.3
HD-34Vincent F. Callahan (R)Unopposed
HD-35Dorothy McDiarmid (D)18.5
HD-36Kenneth Plum (D)26.4
HD-37Stephen E. Gordy (R)0.7
HD-38Leslie L. Byrne (D)10.1FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-39Vivian Watts (D)25.8
HD-40Robert E. Harris (R)26.3
HD-41James E. Dillard (R)Unopposed
HD-42Robert K. Cunningham (R)Unopposed
HD-43Gladys B. Keating (D)27.3
HD-44Frank Medico (R)Unopposed
HD-45Marian A. Vanlandingham (D)21.1
HD-46Bernard S. Cohen (D)7.8
HD-47James F. Almand (D)35.5
HD-48Mary A. Marshall (D)Unopposed
HD-49Warren G. Stambaugh (D)38.2
HD-50Harry J. Parrish (R)Unopposed
HD-51David G. Brickley (D)34.7
HD-52John Adams Rollison III (R)1.6Flipped
HD-53Thomas M. Moncure Jr. (R)Unopposed
HD-54Robert W. Ackerman (D)Unopposed
HD-55Frank D. Hargrove Sr. (R)Unopposed
HD-56V. Earl Dickinson (D)Unopposed
HD-57Mitchell Vanyahres (D)32.5
HD-58George Allen (R)Unopposed
HD-59Watkins M. Abbitt Jr. (D)9.3
HD-60Franklin M. Slayton (D)Unopposed
HD-61Lewis W. Parker Jr. (D)Unopposed
HD-62R. Beasley Jones (D)Unopposed
HD-63Jay W. Deboer (D)Unopposed
HD-64C. Hardaway Marks (D)Unopposed
HD-65John C. Watkins (R)Unopposed
HD-66John G. Dicks III (D)Unopposed
HD-67N. Leslie Saunders Jr. (D)Unopposed
HD-68Joseph B. Benedetti (R)59.5
HD-69Franklin P. Hall (D)Unopposed
HD-70Roland D. Ealey (D)Unopposed
HD-71Benjamin J. Lambert III (D)Unopposed
HD-72Ralph L. Axselle Jr. (D)Unopposed
HD-73Walter A. Stosch (R)Unopposed
HD-74Robert B. Ball Sr. (D)21.5
HD-75J. Paul Councill Jr. (D)Unopposed
HD-76J. Samuel Glasscock (D)40.2
HD-77V. Thomas Forehand Jr. (D)Unopposed
HD-78Frederick H. Creekmore (D)Unopposed
HD-79W. S. Moore Jr. (D)Unopposed
HD-80Kenneth R. Melvin (D)Unopposed
HD-81Owen Pickett (D)Unopposed
HD-82Harry R. Purkey (R)13.0
HD-83Joseph William Obrien Jr. (D)Unopposed
HD-84Glenn McClanan (D)Unopposed
HD-85Robert Tata (R)38.1
HD-86George H. Heilig (D)Unopposed
HD-87Howard E. Copeland (D)35.7
HD-88Thomas W. Moss Jr. (D)Unopposed
HD-89Yvonne B. Miller (D)Unopposed
HD-90William P. Robinson Jr. (D)Unopposed
HD-91S. Wallace Stieffen (D)Unopposed
HD-92Mary T. Christian (IND)5.7Flipped
HD-93Theodore V. Morrison Jr. (D)Unopposed
HD-94Alan Diamonstein (D)Unopposed
HD-95W. Henry Maxwell (D)Unopposed
HD-96Shirley F. Cooper (D)9.3
HD-97George W. Grayson (D)Unopposed
HD-98Harvey B. Morgan (R)53.7
HD-99W. Tayloe Murphy Jr. (D)Unopposed
HD-100Rob Bloxom (R)16.4

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