United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1978
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The United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1978 was an election for California's delegation to the United States House of Representatives, which occurred as part of the general election of the House of Representatives on November 7, 1978. Republicans knocked off three Democratic incumbents.
Overview
United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1978 | ||||||
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Party | Votes | % | Before | After | +/– | |
Democratic | 3,335,332 | 51.11% | 29 | 26 | -3 | |
Republican | 3,105,933 | 47.60% | 14 | 17 | +3 | |
American Independent | 45,359 | 0.70% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Peace and Freedom | 39,017 | 0.60% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Totals | 6,525,641 | 100.00% | 43 | 43 | — |
Results
Final results from the Clerk of the House of Representatives:
District 1 • District 2 • District 3 • District 4 • District 5 • District 6 • District 7 • District 8 • District 9 • District 10 • District 11 • District 12 • District 13 • District 14 |
District 1
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Harold T. Johnson (incumbent) | 125,122 | 59.35 | |
Republican | James E. Taylor | 85,690 | 40.65 | |
Total votes | 210,812 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Democratic hold | ||||
District 2
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Don H. Clausen (incumbent) | 114,451 | 51.96 | |
Democratic | Norma Bork | 99,712 | 45.27 | |
Peace and Freedom | Irv Sutley | 6,097 | 2.77 | |
Total votes | 220,260 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Republican hold | ||||
District 3
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Bob Matsui | 105,537 | 53.44 | |
Republican | Sandy Smoley | 91,966 | 46.56 | |
Total votes | 197,503 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Democratic hold | ||||
District 4
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Vic Fazio | 87,764 | 55.37 | |
Republican | Rex Hime | 70,733 | 44.63 | |
Total votes | 158,497 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Democratic hold | ||||
District 5
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | John L. Burton (incumbent) | 106,046 | 66.84 | |
Republican | Dolores Skore | 52,603 | 33.16 | |
Total votes | 158,649 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Democratic hold | ||||
District 6
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Phillip Burton (incumbent) | 81,801 | 68.30 | |
Republican | Tom Spinosa | 33,515 | 27.98 | |
American Independent | Raymond O. Heaps | 4,452 | 3.72 | |
Total votes | 119,768 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Democratic hold | ||||
District 7
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | George Miller (incumbent) | 109,676 | 63.45 | |
Republican | Paula Gordon | 58,332 | 33.74 | |
American Independent | Melvin E. Stanley | 4,857 | 2.81 | |
Total votes | 172,865 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Democratic hold | ||||
District 8
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Ron Dellums (incumbent) | 94,824 | 57.36 | |
Republican | Charles V. Hughes | 70,481 | 42.64 | |
Total votes | 165,305 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Democratic hold | ||||
District 9
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Pete Stark (incumbent) | 88,179 | 65.38 | |
Republican | Robert S. Allen | 41,138 | 30.50 | |
Peace and Freedom | Lawrance J. Phillips | 5,562 | 4.12 | |
Total votes | 134,879 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Democratic hold | ||||
District 10
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Don Edwards (incumbent) | 84,488 | 67.13 | |
Republican | Rudy Hansen | 41,374 | 32.87 | |
Total votes | 125,862 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Democratic hold | ||||
District 11
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Leo Ryan (incumbent) | 92,882 | 60.52 | |
Republican | Dave Welch | 54,621 | 35.59 | |
American Independent | Nicholas Waeil Kudrovzeff | 5,961 | 3.88 | |
Total votes | 153,464 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Democratic hold | ||||
District 12
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Pete McCloskey (incumbent) | 116,982 | 73.07 | |
Democratic | Kirsten Olsen | 34,472 | 21.53 | |
American Independent | Harold R. Boylan | 5,609 | 3.50 | |
Peace and Freedom | Adele Fumino | 3,022 | 1.89 | |
Total votes | 160,085 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Republican hold | ||||
District 13
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Norman Mineta (incumbent) | 100,809 | 57.49 | |
Republican | Dan O'Keefe | 69,306 | 39.52 | |
Peace and Freedom | Robert Goldsborough III | 5,246 | 2.99 | |
Total votes | 175,361 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Democratic hold | ||||
District 14
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
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Republican | Norman D. Shumway | 95,962 | 53.39 | |||
Democratic | John J. McFall (incumbent) | 76,602 | 42.62 | |||
American Independent | George Darold Waldron | 7,163 | 3.99 | |||
Total votes | 179,727 | 100.00 | ||||
Voter turnout | % | |||||
Republican gain from Democratic | ||||||
District 15
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Tony Coelho | 75,212 | 60.11 | |
Republican | Chris Patterakis | 49,914 | 39.89 | |
Total votes | 125,126 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Democratic hold | ||||
District 16
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Leon Panetta (incumbent) | 104,550 | 61.37 | |
Republican | Eric Seastrand | 65,808 | 38.63 | |
Total votes | 170,358 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Democratic hold | ||||
District 17
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
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Republican | Charles (Chip) Pashayan | 81,296 | 54.49 | |||
Democratic | John Hans Krebs (incumbent) | 67,885 | 45.51 | |||
Total votes | 149,181 | 100.00 | ||||
Voter turnout | % | |||||
Republican gain from Democratic | ||||||
District 18
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Bill Thomas | 85,663 | 59.26 | |
Democratic | Bob Sogge | 58,900 | 40.74 | |
Total votes | 144,563 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Republican hold | ||||
District 19
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Robert J. Lagomarsino (incumbent) | 123,192 | 71.73 | |
Democratic | Jerry Zamos | 41,672 | 24.26 | |
Peace and Freedom | Milton Shiro Takei | 6,887 | 4.01 | |
Total votes | 171,751 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Republican hold | ||||
District 20
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Barry Goldwater, Jr. (incumbent) | 129,714 | 66.38 | |
Democratic | Pat Lear | 65,695 | 33.62 | |
Total votes | 195,409 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Republican hold | ||||
District 21
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | James C. Corman (incumbent) | 73,869 | 59.51 | |
Republican | Rod Walsh | 44,519 | 35.86 | |
Peace and Freedom | Bill Hill | 5,750 | 4.63 | |
Total votes | 124,138 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Democratic hold | ||||
District 22
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Carlos J. Moorhead (incumbent) | 99,502 | 64.64 | |
Democratic | Robert S. Henry | 54,442 | 35.36 | |
Total votes | 153,944 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Republican hold | ||||
District 23
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Anthony C. Beilenson (incumbent) | 117,498 | 65.64 | |
Republican | Joseph Barbara | 61,496 | 34.36 | |
Total votes | 178,994 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Democratic hold | ||||
District 24
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Henry Waxman (incumbent) | 85,075 | 62.66 | |
Republican | Howard G. Schaefer | 44,243 | 32.59 | |
Peace and Freedom | Kevin Casey Peters | 6,453 | 4.75 | |
Total votes | 135,771 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Democratic hold | ||||
District 25
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Edward R. Roybal (incumbent) | 45,881 | 67.39 | |
Republican | Robert K. Watson | 22,205 | 32.61 | |
Total votes | 68,086 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Democratic hold | ||||
District 26
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | John H. Rousselot (incumbent) | 113,059 | 100.00 | |
Voter turnout | % | |||
Republican hold | ||||
District 27
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Bob Dornan (incumbent) | 89,392 | 51.00 | |
Democratic | Carey Peck | 85,880 | 49.00 | |
Total votes | 175,272 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Republican hold | ||||
District 28
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Julian C. Dixon | 97,592 | 100.00 | |
Voter turnout | % | |||
Democratic hold | ||||
District 29
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Augustus F. Hawkins (incumbent) | 65,214 | 85.00 | |
Republican | Uriah J. Fields | 11,512 | 15.00 | |
Total votes | 76,726 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Democratic hold | ||||
District 30
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | George E. Danielson (incumbent) | 66,241 | 71.42 | |
Republican | Henry Ares | 26,511 | 28.58 | |
Total votes | 92,752 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Democratic hold | ||||
District 31
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Charles H. Wilson (incumbent) | 55,667 | 67.76 | |
Republican | Don Grimshaw | 26,490 | 32.24 | |
Total votes | 82,157 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Democratic hold | ||||
District 32
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Glenn M. Anderson (incumbent) | 74,004 | 71.43 | |
Republican | Sonya Mathison | 23,242 | 22.43 | |
American Independent | Ida Bader | 6,363 | 6.14 | |
Total votes | 103,609 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Democratic hold | ||||
District 33
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Wayne Grisham | 79,533 | 55.98 | |
Democratic | Dennis S. Kazarian | 62,540 | 44.02 | |
Total votes | 142,073 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Republican hold | ||||
District 34
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
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Republican | Dan Lungren | 90,554 | 53.72 | |||
Democratic | Mark Hannaford (incumbent) | 73,608 | 43.67 | |||
American Independent | Lawrence John Stafford | 4,410 | 2.62 | |||
Total votes | 168,572 | 100.00 | ||||
Voter turnout | % | |||||
Republican gain from Democratic | ||||||
District 35
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Jim Lloyd (incumbent) | 80,388 | 54.01 | |
Republican | David Dreier | 68,442 | 45.99 | |
Total votes | 148,830 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Democratic hold | ||||
District 36
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | George Brown, Jr. (incumbent) | 80,448 | 62.92 | |
Republican | Dana Warren Carmody | 47,417 | 37.08 | |
Total votes | 127,865 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Democratic hold | ||||
District 37
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Jerry Lewis | 106,581 | 61.40 | |
Democratic | Dan Corcoran | 60,463 | 34.83 | |
American Independent | Bernard Wahl | 6,544 | 3.77 | |
Total votes | 173,588 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Republican hold | ||||
District 38
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Jerry M. Patterson (incumbent) | 75,471 | 58.61 | |
Republican | Dan Goedeke | 53,298 | 41.39 | |
Total votes | 128,769 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Democratic hold | ||||
District 39
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | William E. Dannemeyer | 112,160 | 63.71 | |
Democratic | William E. Farris | 63,891 | 36.29 | |
Total votes | 176,051 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Republican hold | ||||
District 40
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Robert Badham (incumbent) | 147,882 | 65.95 | |
Democratic | Jim McGuy | 76,358 | 34.05 | |
Total votes | 224,240 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Republican hold | ||||
District 41
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Bob Wilson (incumbent) | 107,685 | 58.14 | |
Democratic | King Golden, Jr. | 77,540 | 41.86 | |
Total votes | 185,225 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Republican hold | ||||
District 42
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Lionel Van Deerlin (incumbent) | 85,126 | 73.74 | |
Republican | Lawrence C. Mattera | 30,319 | 26.26 | |
Total votes | 115,445 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Democratic hold | ||||
District 43
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Clair Burgener (incumbent) | 167,150 | 68.66 | |
Democratic | Reuben B. Brooks | 76,308 | 31.34 | |
Total votes | 243,458 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Republican hold | ||||
See also
- 96th United States Congress
- Political party strength in California
- Political party strength in U.S. states
- United States House of Representatives elections, 1978
References
External links
- California Legislative District Maps (1911-Present)
- RAND California Election Returns: District Definitions