Contents
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1Overview
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2Results
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2.1District 1
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2.2District 2
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2.3District 3
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2.4District 4
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2.5District 5
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2.6District 6
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2.7District 7
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2.8District 8
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2.9District 9
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2.10District 10
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2.11District 11
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2.12District 12
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2.13District 13
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2.14District 14
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2.15District 15
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2.16District 16
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2.17District 17
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2.18District 18
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2.19District 19
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2.20District 20
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2.21District 21
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2.22District 22
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2.23District 23
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2.24District 24
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2.25District 25
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2.26District 26
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2.27District 27
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2.28District 28
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2.29District 29
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2.30District 30
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2.31District 31
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2.32District 32
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2.33District 33
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2.34District 34
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2.35District 35
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2.36District 36
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2.37District 37
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2.38District 38
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2.39District 39
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2.40District 40
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2.41District 41
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2.42District 42
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2.43District 43
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3See also
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4References
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5External links
Elections in California |
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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. 11th district Congressman Leo Ryan was re-elected, but was murdered while investigating the Peoples Temple in Guyana following the election.
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: [1]
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 | ||
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||
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 | ||
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||
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 | ||
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||
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 | ||
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||
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 | ||
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||
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 | ||
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||
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 | ||
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||
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 | ||
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||
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 | ||
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||
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 | ||
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||
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 | ||
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||
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 | ||
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||
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 | ||
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||
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 | ||||
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 | ||
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||
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 | ||
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||
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 | ||||
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||||
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 | ||
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||
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 | ||
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||
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 | ||
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||
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 | ||
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||
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 | ||
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||
Republican hold |
District 23
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Anthony C. Beilenson (incumbent) | 117,498 | 65.64 | |
Republican | Joseph Barbara | 61,496 | 34.36 | |
Total votes | 178,994 | 100.00 | ||
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||
Democratic hold |
District 24
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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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 | ||
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||
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 | ||
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||
Democratic hold |
District 26
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | John H. Rousselot (incumbent) | 113,059 | 100.00 | |
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||
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 | ||
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||
Republican hold |
District 28
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Julian C. Dixon | 97,592 | 100.00 | |
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||
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 | ||
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||
Democratic hold |
District 30
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | George E. Danielson (incumbent) | 66,241 | 71.42 | |
Republican | Henry Ares | 26,511 | 28.58 | |
Total votes | 92,752 | 100.00 | ||
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||
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 | ||
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||
Democratic hold |
District 32
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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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 | ||
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||
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 | ||
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||
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 | ||||
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||||
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 | ||
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||
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 | ||
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||
Democratic hold |
District 37
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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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 | ||
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||
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 | ||
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||
Democratic hold |
District 39
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | William E. Dannemeyer | 112,160 | 63.71 | |
Democratic | William E. Farris | 63,891 | 36.29 | |
Total votes | 176,051 | 100.00 | ||
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||
Republican hold |
District 40
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Robert Badham (incumbent) | 147,882 | 65.95 | |
Democratic | Jim McGuy | 76,358 | 34.05 | |
Total votes | 224,240 | 100.00 | ||
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||
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 | ||
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||
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 | ||
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||
Democratic hold |
District 43
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Clair Burgener (incumbent) | 167,150 | 68.66 | |
Democratic | Reuben B. Brooks | 76,308 | 31.34 | |
Total votes | 243,458 | 100.00 | ||
Turnout | {{{votes}}} | |||
Republican hold |
See also
- 96th United States Congress
- Political party strength in California
- Political party strength in U.S. states
- 1978 United States House of Representatives elections