1971 State House

188 contests

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188 contests|D won 141|R won 44|Other 3

Kentucky78 districts

		Winner	Party		%
▶	KY-01	Ralph Graves	DEM	6,658	100.0%	D+100.0
▶	KY-04	George F Harris	DEM	6,397	100.0%	D+100.0
▶	KY-05	Kenneth Imes	DEM	7,208	100.0%	D+100.0
▶	KY-06	Richard H Lewis	DEM	6,571	100.0%	D+100.0
▶	KY-07	Joseph McBride	DEM	8,153	58.0%	D+16.0
▶	KY-100	Charles R Holbrook	REP	8,763	53.4%	R+6.9
▶	KY-12	Roy Joe Head	DEM	6,332	100.0%	D+100.0
▶	KY-15	Billy Paxton	DEM	9,476	59.9%	D+19.7
▶	KY-16	George Street Boone	DEM	5,849	96.2%	D+96.2
▶	KY-17	Theron Kessinger	REP	6,139	100.0%	R+100.0
▶	KY-18	Willis G Moreman	DEM	8,306	62.8%	D+25.6
▶	KY-19	J T Skaggs	REP	8,959	53.7%	R+8.5
▶	KY-21	Edward G Brown	DEM	4,530	100.0%	D+100.0
▶	KY-22	T C Simmons	REP	6,363	100.0%	R+100.0
▶	KY-23	Bobby H Richardson	DEM	11,185	58.7%	D+17.4
▶	KY-24	Sam B Thomas	DEM	11,561	60.9%	D+21.7
▶	KY-27	William Lile	REP	3,146	48.1%	R+1.2
▶	KY-28	James R Dunn	DEM	4,695	54.3%	D+13.7
▶	KY-29	Billy G Wilkey	DEM	4,498	49.4%	D+1.9
▶	KY-30	Thomas J Burch	DEM	6,784	55.6%	D+11.2
▶	KY-31	Stanley A Searcy	REP	5,950	51.9%	R+5.9
▶	KY-32	Bruce Blythe	REP	13,944	65.6%	R+31.3
▶	KY-33	Peter Conn	DEM	11,563	55.2%	D+10.5
▶	KY-34	David K Karem	DEM	10,884	57.4%	D+14.7
▶	KY-35	Carl Nett	DEM	10,139	57.9%	D+17.2
▶	KY-36	Frank X Quickert	DEM	5,196	64.4%	D+28.8
▶	KY-37	M Jerry Kleier	DEM	6,612	54.5%	D+10.4
▶	KY-38	Dexter S Wright	REP	7,030	53.9%	R+9.7
▶	KY-39	Lawrence Ray Maynard	DEM	4,982	53.0%	D+7.4
▶	KY-40	George R Siemens Sr.	DEM	5,628	60.6%	D+22.7
▶	KY-41	Mae Streetkidd	DEM	4,257	68.1%	D+37.4
▶	KY-42	Charlotte S McGill	DEM	3,953	67.8%	D+35.7
▶	KY-43	Norbert Blume	DEM	5,406	68.0%	D+36.8
▶	KY-44	James Yocom	DEM	5,572	56.4%	D+15.1
▶	KY-45	Dottie Priddy	DEM	7,477	55.4%	D+10.9
▶	KY-46	Robert F Hughes	DEM	7,483	52.8%	D+5.7
▶	KY-48	Eugene P Stuart	REP	8,921	65.2%	R+30.5
▶	KY-49	Stuart Kelly	DEM	4,443	94.6%	D+94.6
▶	KY-50	Bernard Keene	DEM	5,693	96.5%	D+96.5
▶	KY-51	Herman W Ratliff	REP	12,043	59.2%	R+18.4
▶	KY-52	Raymond Overstreet	REP	7,237	100.0%	R+100.0
▶	KY-53	Randolph Smith	REP	13,571	59.1%	R+18.2
▶	KY-54	Joe Clarke	DEM	9,497	58.2%	D+16.4
▶	KY-55	Forest Sale	DEM	9,552	51.8%	D+3.7
▶	KY-56	Victor Hellard	DEM	7,355	67.0%	D+34.0
▶	KY-58	Louis T Peniston	DEM	8,026	58.8%	D+17.6
▶	KY-59	W J Louden	DEM	6,089	91.3%	D+91.3
▶	KY-60	William K McBee	DEM	7,139	55.3%	D+10.6
▶	KY-61	E T Reed	DEM	6,321	100.0%	D+100.0
▶	KY-62	John Swinford	DEM	4,887	100.0%	D+100.0
▶	KY-63	W I Schmaedecke	REP	9,031	51.8%	R+3.5
▶	KY-64	Phillip E King	DEM	7,263	55.6%	D+11.3
▶	KY-70	Austin Wenz	DEM	6,132	100.0%	D+100.0
▶	KY-71	Woodford F May	DEM	7,071	100.0%	D+100.0
▶	KY-72	Brooks Hinkle	DEM	4,113	100.0%	D+100.0
▶	KY-73	Glenn White	DEM	7,485	68.2%	D+36.5
▶	KY-74	Charles B Hart	DEM	5,572	100.0%	D+100.0
▶	KY-75	William Kenton	DEM	3,026	68.9%	D+37.8
▶	KY-76	Bart Peak	DEM	5,437	53.5%	D+7.0
▶	KY-77	David Vanhorn	DEM	6,366	59.6%	D+19.3
▶	KY-78	Larry J Hopkins	REP	9,222	51.5%	R+5.0
▶	KY-79	Joe Graves	REP	8,618	50.5%	R+0.9
▶	KY-80	William Harold Demarcus	REP	5,025	100.0%	R+100.0
▶	KY-81	Dwight Wells	DEM	6,606	63.2%	D+26.4
▶	KY-82	Clifford M Sharpe	REP	5,448	100.0%	R+100.0
▶	KY-84	Sam Brewer Jr.	REP	4,800	100.0%	R+100.0
▶	KY-85	Albert Robinson	REP	10,357	62.9%	R+25.8
▶	KY-86	Howard West	REP	9,889	50.8%	R+1.6
▶	KY-88	Bert Pollitte	DEM	8,280	61.2%	D+22.4
▶	KY-89	Jeff D Howell	DEM	10,827	58.2%	D+16.3
▶	KY-90	Rudolph Williams	DEM	7,843	61.8%	D+23.6
▶	KY-91	Chester Jones	DEM	9,462	57.5%	D+15.1
▶	KY-92	Darvin Allen	DEM	7,760	100.0%	D+100.0
▶	KY-93	J C Justice	DEM	9,131	61.5%	D+22.9
▶	KY-96	James A Davis	REP	5,517	100.0%	R+100.0
▶	KY-97	Lucian T Hardin	REP	9,937	56.5%	R+12.9
▶	KY-98	W Terry McBrayer	DEM	10,190	61.6%	D+23.2
▶	KY-99	Thomas E Chapman	DEM	8,437	58.5%	D+17.0

Mississippi46 districts

		Winner	Party		%
▶	MS-01(JP)	John Curlee Ross Jr.	DEM	15,606	47.1%	+17.4
▶	MS-02(JP)	Richard Orville Clark	DEM	17,137	55.0%	+15.3
▶	MS-03(JP)	Everett Slayden	DEM	39,084	32.7%	+1.0
▶	MS-04(JP)	Michael Dale Cooke	DEM	48,080	40.3%	+25.0
▶	MS-05	Carl Jackson Gordon Jr.	DEM	6,119	76.0%	D+76.0
▶	MS-06	Devan Dallas	DEM	5,714	93.3%	D+86.7
▶	MS-07	Edgar J Stephens Jr.	DEM	5,721	100.0%	D+100.0
▶	MS-08(JP)	Felix Edwin Perry	DEM	15,519	51.3%	+2.6
▶	MS-09(JP)	W Todd McCullough	DEM	16,947	50.2%	+0.3
▶	MS-10	William Edward Callicott	DEM	3,641	100.0%	D+100.0
▶	MS-11(JP)	Harry Edward Neblett	DEM	44,136	25.0%	+9.7
▶	MS-12	George Payne Cossar	DEM	5,348	75.1%	D+75.2
▶	MS-13(JP)	Ottis B Bennett	DEM	17,719	35.7%	+0.3
▶	MS-14(JP)	John Lafayette Pearson	DEM	23,126	29.0%	+3.0
▶	MS-15(JP)	George Douglas Abraham	DEM	46,914	23.6%	+0.6
▶	MS-16	Robert George Clark Jr.	OTH	22,844	28.6%	D+55.2
▶	MS-17(JP)	Charles M Deaton	DEM	32,443	34.3%	+1.2
▶	MS-18(JP)	Benton Barclay Bloodworth Sr.	DEM	15,824	53.0%	+5.9
▶	MS-19	Clarence Edward Morgan Jr.	DEM	6,849	77.6%	D+55.2
▶	MS-20	Royce Bruce Williamson	DEM	6,468	100.0%	D+100.0
▶	MS-21	James Harvey Cook	DEM	5,622	100.0%	D+100.0
▶	MS-22	Joseph Wyndell Carty	DEM	6,366	72.7%	D+72.7
▶	MS-23(JP)	Thomas McCrary	DEM	65,016	27.9%	+13.9
▶	MS-24(JP)	Edward Sidney Jolly	DEM	84,741	25.4%	+0.3
▶	MS-25(JP)	William T Ruffin	DEM	31,840	48.2%	+25.6
▶	MS-26(JP)	Johnny Max Kilpatrick	DEM	26,108	52.1%	+4.2
▶	MS-27(JP)	Richard Lee Livingston	DEM	19,234	52.8%	+5.7
▶	MS-28(JP)	Peaster Leo Hughes	DEM	59,272	28.9%	+6.6
▶	MS-29(JP)	Thomas Humphreys Campbell III	DEM	14,999	50.5%	+1.1
▶	MS-30(JP)	Donald Melvin Cross	DEM	33,607	34.4%	+0.9
▶	MS-31(JP)	James Huston Neal	DEM	646,680	8.6%	+0.3
▶	MS-32(JP)	Robert E Anderson	DEM	18,470	43.6%	+1.7
▶	MS-33(JP)	John R Junkin II	DEM	15,612	50.2%	+0.5
▶	MS-34(JP)	Homer Lee Smith	DEM	18,705	45.3%	+18.3
▶	MS-35(JP)	William Sidney Guy	DEM	38,528	43.3%	+22.8
▶	MS-36	Tilmon Melvin Bishop	DEM	8,037	78.4%	D+56.8
▶	MS-37(JP)	Harold C Fortenberry	DEM	16,575	51.1%	+2.1
▶	MS-38(JP)	Vasco M Singley	DEM	22,030	46.2%	+9.5
▶	MS-39(JP)	Mack Graham	DEM	82,975	23.5%	+0.5
▶	MS-40	John Alexander Neill	DEM	63,323	31.4%	D+32.0
▶	MS-41	Clyde Herman Dobson	DEM	3,890	100.0%	D+100.0
▶	MS-42	Henry Lee Jones	DEM	6,271	100.0%	D+100.0
▶	MS-43(JP)	James Lonnie Smith	DEM	19,209	50.1%	+0.3
▶	MS-44	Earl E Ladner	DEM	6,616	66.0%	D+66.0
▶	MS-45(JP)	Glenn Edwin Endris	DEM	189,259	14.7%	+0.1
▶	MS-46(JP)	Charles Joseph Lippian	DEM	139,970	16.5%	+0.1

New Jersey15 districts

		Winner	Party		%
▶	NJ-01(JP)	James R Hurley	REP	107,425	28.1%	+2.6
▶	NJ-02(JP)	Steven P Perskie	DEM	128,787	26.8%	+0.6
▶	NJ-03(JP)	William K Dickey	REP	381,710	7.5%	+0.4
▶	NJ-04(JP)	Franklin H Berry Jr.	REP	272,231	10.5%	+0.4
▶	NJ-05	Joseph E Robertson	REP	350,486	16.4%	R+5.1
▶	NJ-06(JP)	Karl Weidel	REP	194,531	15.6%	+0.0
▶	NJ-07	Edwin A Kolodziej	DEM	459,983	17.9%	D+14.6
▶	NJ-08(JP)	John H Ewing	REP	101,235	31.4%	+1.0
▶	NJ-09(JP)	Peter J McDonough	REP	291,882	11.1%	+1.2
▶	NJ-10(JP)	Josephine S Margetts	REP	188,394	17.8%	+1.3
▶	NJ-11(JP)	Thomas H Kean	REP	380,624	7.5%	+0.1
▶	NJ-12	David Friedland	DEM	458,989	15.2%	D+25.4
▶	NJ-13(JP)	Charles E Reid	REP	558,790	6.0%	+0.0
▶	NJ-14(JP)	Vincent Pellecchia	DEM	291,025	18.0%	+0.1
▶	NJ-15(JP)	Robert E Littel	REP	79,700	29.7%	+3.7

Virginia49 districts

		Winner	Party		%
▶	VA-01(JP)	Orby L Cantrell	DEM	68,806	27.7%	+0.6
▶	VA-02(JP)	W L Lemmon	DEM	36,059	32.5%	+5.7
▶	VA-03(JP)	Donald A McGlothlin	DEM	46,659	26.2%	+2.3
▶	VA-04	A A Campbell	DEM	13,483	56.2%	D+12.4
▶	VA-05	C Jefferson Stafford	REP	13,149	54.4%	R+8.7
▶	VA-06(JP)	John N Dalton	REP	28,997	45.7%	+14.1
▶	VA-07	Ray L Garland	REP	29,636	26.5%	R+2.2
▶	VA-08	C Richard Cranwell	DEM	36,104	23.3%	D+0.0
▶	VA-09	Lacey E Putney	OTH	30,232	39.8%	D+1.5
▶	VA-10	Dudley J Emick Jr.	DEM	13,032	41.5%	D+13.9
▶	VA-11(JP)	William M Dudley	DEM	29,652	35.6%	+1.2
▶	VA-12	Richard W Elliott	DEM	9,638	56.4%	D+12.7
▶	VA-13(JP)	Randall O Reynolds	DEM	63,746	26.6%	+3.0
▶	VA-14	Calvin W Fowler	DEM	3,512	99.9%	D+99.9
▶	VA-15(JP)	A R Giesen Jr.	REP	28,130	51.4%	+2.8
▶	VA-16(JP)	I Clinton Miller	REP	47,767	31.6%	+0.2
▶	VA-17	Duncan C Gibb	DEM	38,199	28.0%	D+0.0
▶	VA-18	Vincent F Callahan	REP	178,803	11.6%	R+5.8
▶	VA-19(JP)	Stanford E Parris	REP	198,855	10.0%	+0.7
▶	VA-20(JP)	Stanley A Owens	DEM	48,593	21.5%	+3.4
▶	VA-21(JP)	Frank E Mann	DEM	21,767	35.1%	+6.8
▶	VA-22	George Mason Green Jr.	REP	91,159	16.9%	R+0.7
▶	VA-23	Herbert N Morgan	REP	39,892	50.0%	R+0.1
▶	VA-24	Robert R Gwathmey	DEM	28,722	31.6%	D+4.3
▶	VA-25	D French Slaughter Jr.	DEM	8,098	100.0%	D+100.0
▶	VA-26(JP)	Daniel G Vancleif	DEM	36,514	30.6%	+5.3
▶	VA-27	Claude W Anderson	DEM	9,145	100.0%	D+100.0
▶	VA-28	Franklin M Slayton	DEM	7,852	100.0%	D+100.0
▶	VA-29	C William Cleaton	DEM	11,938	67.8%	D+67.8
▶	VA-30	William Roy Smith	DEM	8,141	64.6%	D+64.6
▶	VA-31	L O Scott	OTH	10,341	50.6%	D+49.4
▶	VA-32	V Earl Dickinson	DEM	13,248	55.3%	D+10.6
▶	VA-33(JP)	Edward E Lane	DEM	207,488	12.5%	+0.3
▶	VA-34	Edwin H Ragsdale	REP	85,181	16.6%	D+2.9
▶	VA-35	William Ferguson Reid	DEM	65,933	56.5%	D+56.5
▶	VA-36	George W Jones	REP	30,188	27.3%	R+7.2
▶	VA-37	C Hardaway Marks	DEM	4,511	99.9%	D+99.9
▶	VA-38(JP)	L Cleaves Manning	DEM	100,283	18.3%	+0.4
▶	VA-39(JP)	J Warren White Jr.	DEM	202,518	11.3%	+0.5
▶	VA-40(JP)	B R Middleton	DEM	40,275	35.3%	+2.1
▶	VA-43(JP)	Sam E Pope	DEM	31,531	31.8%	+1.2
▶	VA-45	L Ray Ashworth	DEM	13,701	61.8%	D+61.8
▶	VA-46	George N McMath	DEM	7,518	100.0%	D+100.0
▶	VA-47	Walther B Fidler	DEM	8,736	99.9%	D+99.8
▶	VA-48	John Warren Cooke	DEM	9,854	100.0%	D+100.0
▶	VA-49(JP)	Theodore V Morrison Jr.	DEM	50,951	28.0%	+1.3
▶	VA-50(JP)	Richard M Bagley	DEM	19,420	52.4%	+4.8
▶	VA-51	Russell M Carneal	DEM	9,231	100.0%	D+100.0
▶	VA-52	Robert E Quinn	DEM	24,042	70.3%	D+40.6

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