1978 U.S. House election results

435 races · 435 with a recorded winner · popular vote by contest

Every U.S. House contest in the 1978 U.S. general election. Each race links to its full popular-vote breakdown; winners link to their profile. Part of the party vote tracker.

Alabama

1978 U.S. House results in Alabama
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Jack Edwards R	71,711 votes · +31,261 over L. W. Noonan
District 2	William L. Bill Dickinson R	57,924 votes · +8,583 over Wendell Mitchell
District 3	Bill Nichols D	74,895 votes
District 4	Tom Bevill D	87,380 votes
District 5	Ronnie G. Flippo D	68,985 votes · +66,735 over Harvey Nicholas Crumhorn
District 6	John H. Buchanan Jr.R	65,700 votes · +24,929 over Don Hawkins
District 7	Richard C. Shelby D	77,742 votes · +74,457 over Fulton Gray

Alaska

1978 U.S. House results in Alaska
District	Winner	Result
At-large	Don Young R	68,811 votes · +13,635 over Patrick Rodey

Arizona

1978 U.S. House results in Arizona
District	Winner	Result
District 1	John J. Rhodes R	81,108 votes · +47,930 over Ken Graves
District 2	Morris K. Udall D	67,878 votes · +9,181 over Tom Richey
District 3	Bob Stump D	111,850 votes · +92,037 over Kathleen Cooke
District 4	Eldon Rudd R	90,768 votes · +42,107 over Michael McCormick

Arkansas

1978 U.S. House results in Arkansas
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Bill Alexander D	1 votes
District 2	Ed Bethune R	65,285 votes · +3,145 over Benton Douglas Brandon Jr.
District 3	John Paul Hammerschmidt R	130,086 votes · +94,338 over William Curtis Mears
District 4	Beryl Anthony Jr.D	1 votes

California

1978 U.S. House results in California
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Harold T. Johnson D	125,122 votes · +39,432 over James E. Taylor
District 2	Don H. Clausen R	114,451 votes · +14,739 over Norma K. Bork
District 3	Robert T. Matsui D	105,537 votes · +13,571 over Sandy Smoley
District 4	Vic Fazio D	87,764 votes · +17,031 over Rex Hime
District 5	John L. Burton D	106,046 votes · +53,443 over Dolores Skore
District 6	Phillip Burton D	81,801 votes · +48,286 over Tom Spinosa
District 7	George Miller D	109,676 votes · +51,344 over Paula Gordon
District 8	Ronald V. Dellums D	94,824 votes · +24,343 over Charles V. Hughes
District 9	Fortney H. Stark Jr.D	88,179 votes · +47,041 over Robert S. Allen
District 10	Don Edwards D	84,488 votes · +43,114 over Rudy Hansen
District 11	Leo J. Ryan D	92,882 votes · +38,261 over Dave Welch
District 12	Paul N. Pete McCloskey Jr.R	116,982 votes · +82,510 over Kirsten Olsen
District 13	Norman Y. Mineta D	100,809 votes · +31,503 over Dan O'Keefe
District 14	Norman D. Shumway R	95,962 votes · +19,360 over John J. McFall
District 15	Tony Coelho D	75,212 votes · +25,298 over Chris Patterakis
District 16	Leon E. Panetta D	104,550 votes · +38,742 over Eric Seastrand
District 17	Charles Chip Pashayan Jr.R	81,296 votes · +13,411 over John Krebs
District 18	William M. Thomas R	85,663 votes · +26,763 over Bob Sogge
District 19	Robert J. Bob Lagomarsino R	123,192 votes · +81,520 over Jerry Zamos
District 20	Barry Goldwater Jr.R	129,714 votes · +64,019 over Pat Lear
District 21	James C. Corman D	73,869 votes · +29,350 over Rod Walsh
District 22	Carlos J. Moorhead R	99,502 votes · +45,060 over Robert S. Henry
District 23	Anthony C. Beilenson D	117,498 votes · +56,002 over Joseph Barbara
District 24	Henry A. Waxman D	85,075 votes · +40,832 over Howard G. Schaefer
District 25	Edward R. Roybal D	45,881 votes · +23,676 over Robert K. Watson
District 26	John H. Rousselot R	113,059 votes
District 27	Robert Kenneth 'Bob' Dornan R	89,392 votes · +3,512 over Carey Peek
District 28	Julian C. Dixon D	97,592 votes
District 29	Augustus F. Gus Hawkins D	65,214 votes · +53,702 over Uriah J. Fields
District 30	George E. Danielson D	66,241 votes · +39,730 over Henry Ares
District 31	Charles II. Wilson D	55,667 votes · +29,177 over Don Grimshaw
District 32	Glenn M. Anderson D	74,004 votes · +50,762 over Sonya Mathison
District 33	Wayne Grisham R	79,533 votes · +16,993 over Dennis S. Kazarian
District 34	Dan Lungren R	90,554 votes · +16,946 over Mark W. Hannaford
District 35	Jim Lloyd D	80,388 votes · +11,946 over David Dreier
District 36	George E. Brown Jr.D	80,448 votes · +33,031 over Dana Warren Carmody
District 37	Jerry Lewis R	106,581 votes · +46,118 over Dan Corcoran
District 38	Jerry M. Patterson D	75,471 votes · +22,173 over Dan Goedeke
District 39	William E. Bill Dannemeyer R	112,160 votes · +48,269 over William E. Bill Farris
District 40	Robert E. Badham R	147,882 votes · +71,524 over Jim McGuy
District 41	Bob C. Wilson R	107,685 votes · +30,145 over King Golden Jr.
District 42	Lionel Van Deerlin D	85,126 votes · +54,807 over Lawrence C. Mattera
District 43	Clair W. Burgener R	167,150 votes · +90,842 over Ruben B. Brooks

Colorado

1978 U.S. House results in Colorado
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Patrick Schroeder D	82,742 votes · +32,897 over Gene Hutcheson
District 2	Timothy E. Wirth D	98,889 votes · +10,817 over Ed Scott
District 3	Ray Kogovsek D	69,669 votes · +366 over Harold L. Mack McCormick
District 4	James P. Johnson R	103,121 votes · +37,700 over Morgan Smith
District 5	Ken Kramer R	91,933 votes · +39,019 over Gerry Frank

Connecticut

1978 U.S. House results in Connecticut
District	Winner	Result
District 1	William R. Cotter D	102,749 votes · +34,921 over Ben F. Andrews Jr.
District 2	Christopher J. Dodd D	116,624 votes · +66,457 over Thomas Hudson Connell
District 3	Robert N. Giaimo D	96,830 votes · +30,167 over John G. Pucciano
District 4	Stewart B. McKinney R	83,990 votes · +24,072 over Michael G. Morgan
District 5	William R. Ratchford D	96,738 votes · +8,576 over George C. Guidera
District 6	Anthony Toby Moffett D	119,537 votes · +52,873 over Daniel F. Mackinnon

Delaware

1978 U.S. House results in Delaware
District	Winner	Result
At-large	Thomas B. Evans Jr.R	91,689 votes · +26,826 over Gary E. Hindes

Florida

1978 U.S. House results in Florida
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Earl Dewitt Hutto D	85,608 votes · +35,893 over Warren Briggs
District 2	Don Fuqua D	112,649 votes · +87,501 over Pete Brathwaite
District 3	Charles E. Bennett D	1 votes
District 4	Bill Chappell Jr.D	113,302 votes · +71,655 over Tom Boney
District 5	Richard Kelly R	106,319 votes · +4,452 over David Ryan Best
District 6	C. W. Bill Young R	150,694 votes · +110,040 over Jim Christison
District 7	Sam M. Gibbons D	1 votes
District 8	Andy Ireland D	1 votes
District 9	Bill Nelson D	89,543 votes · +33,469 over Edward Gurney
District 10	L. A. Bafalis R	1 votes
District 11	Dan Mica D	123,346 votes · +23,589 over Bill James
District 12	Edward J. Ed Stack D	107,037 votes · +40,427 over J. Herbert Burke
District 13	William Lehman D	1 votes
District 14	Claude Pepper D	65,202 votes · +27,121 over Al Cardenas
District 15	Dante B. Fascell D	108,837 votes · +70,940 over Herbert J. Hoodwin

Georgia

1978 U.S. House results in Georgia
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Bo Ginn D	36,961 votes
District 2	Dawson Mathis D	42,234 votes
District 3	Jack Brinkley D	54,881 votes
District 4	Elliott H. Levitas D	60,284 votes · +46,063 over Homer Cheung
District 5	Wyche Fowler Jr.D	52,739 votes · +35,607 over Thomas P. Bowles Jr.
District 6	Newton Leroy Gingrich R	47,078 votes · +7,627 over Virginia Shapard
District 7	Larry P. McDonald D	47,090 votes · +23,392 over Earnest Norsworthy
District 8	Billy Lee Evans D	41,184 votes
District 9	Ed Jenkins D	47,264 votes · +33,092 over David G. Ashworth
District 10	Doug Barnard Jr.D	50,122 votes

Hawaii

1978 U.S. House results in Hawaii
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Cecil Heftel D	84,552 votes · +60,082 over William D. Spillane
District 2	Daniel K. Akaka D	118,272 votes · +102,575 over Charlie Isaak

Idaho

1978 U.S. House results in Idaho
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Steve Symms R	86,680 votes · +28,708 over Roy Truby
District 2	George V. Hansen R	80,591 votes · +20,551 over Stan Kress

Illinois

1978 U.S. House results in Illinois
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Bennett M. Stewart D	47,581 votes · +14,041 over A. A. Rayner Jr.
District 2	Morgan F. Murphy D	80,906 votes · +69,802 over James P. Wognum
District 3	Martin A. Russo D	95,701 votes · +44,603 over Robert L. Dunne
District 4	Edward J. Derwinski R	94,435 votes · +47,647 over Andrew Thomas
District 5	John G. Fary D	98,702 votes · +79,900 over Joseph A. Barracca
District 6	Henry J. Hyde R	87,193 votes · +42,650 over Jeanne P. Quinn
District 7	Cardiss Collins D	64,716 votes · +54,443 over James C. Holt
District 8	Daniel D. Rostenkowski D	81,457 votes · +68,155 over Carl C. LoDico
District 9	Sidney R. Yates D	87,543 votes · +58,870 over John Collins
District 10	Abner J. Mikva D	89,479 votes · +650 over John Edward Porter
District 11	Frank Annunzio D	112,365 votes · +72,321 over John Hoeger
District 12	Philip M. Crane R	110,503 votes · +82,079 over Gilbert Bogen
District 13	Robert M. McClory R	64,060 votes · +23,385 over Frederick J. Steffen
District 14	John N. Erlenborn R	118,741 votes · +79,303 over James A. Romanyak
District 15	Tom Corcoran R	80,856 votes · +32,100 over Tim L. Hall
District 16	John B. Anderson R	76,752 votes · +36,281 over Ernest W. Dahlin
District 17	George M. O'Brien R	94,375 votes · +55,115 over Clifford J. Sinclair
District 18	Robert H. Michel R	85,973 votes · +41,446 over Virgil R. Grunkmeyer
District 19	Tom Railsback R	89,770 votes
District 20	Paul Findley R	111,054 votes · +62,628 over Victor Roberts
District 21	Edward R. Madigan R	97,473 votes · +70,419 over Ken Baughman
District 22	Daniel B. Crane R	86,051 votes · +12,720 over Terry L. Bruce
District 23	Melvin Price D	74,247 votes · +48,389 over Daniel J. Stack
District 24	Paul Simon D	110,298 votes · +52,535 over John B. Anderson

Indiana

1978 U.S. House results in Indiana
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Adam Benjamin Jr.D	72,367 votes · +54,948 over Owen W. Crumpacker
District 2	Floyd J. Fithian D	82,402 votes · +29,560 over Jay Philip Oppenheim
District 3	John Brademas D	64,336 votes · +14,191 over Thomas L. Thorson
District 4	Dan Quayle R	80,527 votes · +38,289 over John D. Walda
District 5	Elwood H. Hillis R	94,950 votes · +49,471 over Max Ervin Heiss
District 6	David W. Evans D	66,421 votes · +5,791 over David G. Crane
District 7	John T. Myers R	86,955 votes · +19,486 over Charlotte T. Zietlow
District 8	H. Joel Deckard R	83,019 votes · +6,365 over David L. Cornwell
District 9	Lee Herbert Hamilton D	99,727 votes · +47,509 over Frank I. Hamilton Jr.
District 10	Philip R. Sharp D	73,343 votes · +17,344 over William Gould Frazier
District 11	Andrew Jacobs Jr.D	61,504 votes · +15,695 over Charles E. Bosma

Iowa

1978 U.S. House results in Iowa
District	Winner	Result
District 1	James A. S. Leach R	79,940 votes · +34,903 over Richard E. Myers
District 2	Thomas J. Tauke R	72,644 votes · +7,194 over Michael T. Blouin
District 3	Charles E. Grassley R	103,659 votes · +68,779 over John Knudson
District 4	Neal Smith D	88,526 votes · +40,218 over Charles E. Minor
District 5	Tom Harkin D	82,333 votes · +24,956 over Julian B. Garrett
District 6	Berkley Bedell D	87,139 votes · +42,819 over Willis Edgar Junker

Kansas

1978 U.S. House results in Kansas
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Keith G. Sebelius R	131,037 votes
District 2	James E. Jeffries R	76,419 votes · +5,959 over Martha Keys
District 3	Larry Winn Jr.R	103,265 votes
District 4	Dan Glickman D	100,139 votes · +56,285 over James Paul Litsey
District 5	Robert Bob Whittaker R	86,011 votes · +23,609 over Don Allegrucci

Kentucky

1978 U.S. House results in Kentucky
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Carroll Hubbard Jr.D	44,090 votes
District 2	William H. Natcher D	36,441 votes
District 3	Romano L. Mazzoli D	37,346 votes · +19,561 over Norbert Drummond Leveronne
District 4	M. Gene Snyder R	62,087 votes · +29,875 over George Clarke Martin
District 5	Tim Lee Carter R	59,743 votes · +44,029 over Jesse M. Ramey
District 6	Larry J. Hopkins R	52,092 votes · +4,656 over Charles T. Easterly
District 7	Carl D. Perkins D	51,559 votes · +35,698 over Granville Thomas

Louisiana

1978 U.S. House results in Louisiana
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Bob Livingston R	1 votes
District 2	Lindy Mrs. Hale Boggs D	1 votes
District 3	Dave Treen R	1 votes
District 4	Claude Buddy Leach D	65,583 votes · +266 over James Hamilton Wilson
District 5	Jerry Huckaby D	1 votes
District 6	W. Henson Moore R	1 votes
District 7	John B. Breaux D	1 votes
District 8	Gillis W. Long D	1 votes

Maine

1978 U.S. House results in Maine
District	Winner	Result
District 1	David F. Emery R	120,791 votes · +50,443 over John Quinn
District 2	Olympia J. Snowe R	87,939 votes · +17,248 over Markham L. Gartley

Maryland

1978 U.S. House results in Maryland
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Robert E. Bauman R	80,202 votes · +34,109 over Joseph D. Quinn
District 2	Clarence D. Long D	98,601 votes · +48,715 over Malcolm M. McKnight
District 3	Barbara A. Mikulski D	91,189 votes
District 4	Marjorie S. Holt R	71,374 votes · +27,711 over Sue F. Ward
District 5	Gladys Noon Spellman D	64,868 votes · +45,708 over Saul J. Harris
District 6	Beverly B. Byron D	126,196 votes · +111,651 over Melvin Perkins
District 7	Parren J. Mitchell D	51,996 votes · +45,370 over Debra J. Hanania-Freeman
District 8	Michael D. Barnes D	81,851 votes · +4,044 over Newton I. Steers Jr.

Massachusetts

1978 U.S. House results in Massachusetts
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Silvio O. Conte R	131,773 votes
District 2	Edward P. Boland D	101,570 votes · +63,689 over Thomas P. Swank
District 3	Joseph D. Early D	119,337 votes · +80,078 over Charles K. Macleod
District 4	Robert F. Drinan D	111,353 votes
District 5	James M. Shannon D	90,156 votes · +41,471 over John J. Buckley
District 6	Nicholas Mavroules D	97,099 votes · +13,588 over William E. Bronson
District 7	Edward J. Markey D	145,615 votes · +119,598 over James J. Murphy
District 8	Thomas P. O'Neill Jr.D	102,160 votes · +73,594 over William A. Barnstead
District 9	John Joseph Moakley D	106,805 votes · +100,011 over Brenda Lee M. Franklin
District 10	Margaret M. Heckler R	102,080 votes · +37,212 over John J. Marino
District 11	Brian J. Donnelly D	133,644 votes · +121,600 over H. Graham Lowry
District 12	Gerry E. Studds D	176,704 votes

Michigan

1978 U.S. House results in Michigan
District	Winner	Result
District 1	John Conyers Jr.D	89,646 votes · +82,768 over Robert S. Arnold
District 2	Carl D. Pursell R	97,503 votes · +51,872 over Earl Greene
District 3	Howard Wolpe D	83,932 votes · +4,360 over Garry Brown
District 4	Dave Stockman R	95,440 votes · +57,236 over Morgan L. Hager Jr.
District 5	Harold S. Sawyer R	81,794 votes · +1,172 over Dale Robert Sprik
District 6	Robert William Carr D	97,971 votes · +23,253 over Michael H. Conlin
District 7	Dale E. Kildee D	105,402 votes · +75,444 over Gale M. Cronk
District 8	Bob Traxler D	103,346 votes · +51,446 over Norman R. Hughes
District 9	Guy A. Vander Jagt R	122,363 votes · +68,913 over Howard M. LeRoux
District 10	Donald Joseph Albosta D	94,913 votes · +5,462 over Elford A. Cederberg
District 11	Robert W. Davis R	96,351 votes · +17,270 over Keith McLeod
District 12	David E. Bonior D	82,892 votes · +14,829 over Kirby Holmes
District 13	Charles C. Diggs Jr.D	44,771 votes · +33,022 over Dovie T. Pickett
District 14	Lucien N. Nedzi D	84,032 votes · +43,316 over John Edward Getz
District 15	William D. Ford D	95,137 votes · +71,960 over Edgar Nieten
District 16	John D. Dingell D	93,387 votes · +66,560 over Melvin E. Heuer
District 17	William M. Brodhead D	106,303 votes · +100,962 over Hector M. McGregor
District 18	James J. Blanchard D	113,037 votes · +76,124 over Robert J. Salloum
District 19	William S. Broomfield R	117,122 votes · +69,957 over Betty F. Collier

Minnesota

1978 U.S. House results in Minnesota
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Arlen Erdahl R	110,090 votes · +26,819 over Gerald Sikorski
District 2	Tom Hagedorn R	145,415 votes · +84,242 over John F. Considine
District 3	Bill Frenzel R	128,759 votes · +61,639 over Michael O. Freeman
District 4	Bruce F. Vento D	95,989 votes · +26,593 over John Berg
District 5	Martin Olav Sabo D	91,673 votes · +36,261 over Mike Till
District 6	Richard M. Nolan D	115,880 votes · +22,138 over Russ Bjorhus
District 7	Arlan Stangeland R	106,573 votes · +13,518 over Gene Wenstrom
District 8	James L. Oberstar D	171,125 votes · +146,110 over John W. Hull

Mississippi

1978 U.S. House results in Mississippi
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Jamie L. Whitten D	57,358 votes · +30,624 over Terrill K. Moffett
District 2	David R. Bowen D	57,678 votes · +21,948 over M. Roland Byrd
District 3	G.V. Sonny Montgomery D	101,685 votes · +93,277 over Dorothy Eleanor Cleveland
District 4	Jon Clifton Hinson R	68,225 votes · +33,388 over John C. Stennis
District 5	Trent Lott R	97,177 votes

Missouri

1978 U.S. House results in Missouri
District	Winner	Result
District 1	William Lacy Clay D	65,950 votes · +34,955 over William E. White
District 2	Robert A. Young D	102,911 votes · +23,416 over Bob Chase
District 3	Richard A. Gephardt D	121,565 votes · +94,684 over Lee Buchschacher
District 4	Ike Skelton D	120,748 votes · +75,632 over Bill Baker
District 5	Richard Bolling D	82,140 votes · +51,780 over Steven L. Walter
District 6	E. Thomas Coleman R	96,574 votes · +20,513 over Phil Snowden
District 7	Gene Taylor R	104,566 votes · +38,215 over Jim Thomas
District 8	Richard H. Ichord D	96,509 votes · +33,400 over Donald D. Meyer
District 9	Harold L. Volkmer D	135,170 votes · +89,375 over Jerry Dent
District 10	Bill D. Burlison D	99,148 votes · +46,461 over James A. Weir

Montana

1978 U.S. House results in Montana
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Pat Williams D	86,016 votes · +21,923 over Jim Waltermire
District 2	Ron Marlenee R	75,766 votes · +18,286 over Thomas G. Monahan

Nebraska

1978 U.S. House results in Nebraska
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Douglas K. Bereuter R	99,013 votes · +27,702 over Hess Dyas
District 2	John J. Cavanaugh D	77,135 votes · +6,826 over Hal Daub
District 3	Virginia Smith R	141,597 votes · +106,226 over Marilyn Fowler

Nevada

1978 U.S. House results in Nevada
District	Winner	Result
At-large	Jim Santini D	132,513 votes · +88,088 over Bill O'Mara

New Hampshire

1978 U.S. House results in New Hampshire
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Norman E. D'Amours D	82,697 votes · +33,566 over Daniel M. Hughes
District 2	James C. Cleveland R	84,535 votes · +44,989 over Edgar J. Helms

New Jersey

1978 U.S. House results in New Jersey
District	Winner	Result
District 1	James Florio D	106,096 votes · +79,243 over Robert Mark Deitch
District 2	William J. Hughes Jr.D	112,768 votes · +55,771 over James H. Biggs
District 3	James J. Howard D	83,349 votes · +18,619 over Bruce G. Coe
District 4	Frank Thompson Jr.D	69,259 votes · +27,426 over Christopher H. Smith
District 5	Millicent Fenwick R	100,739 votes · +62,631 over John T. Fahy
District 6	Edwin B. Forsythe R	89,446 votes · +32,572 over W. Thomas McGann
District 7	Andrew Maguire D	78,358 votes · +8,815 over Margaret S. Roukema
District 8	Robert A. Roe D	69,496 votes · +45,654 over Thomas Melani
District 9	Harold C. Hollenbeck R	73,478 votes · +16,590 over Nicholas S. Mastorelli
District 10	Peter W. Rodino Jr.D	55,074 votes · +47,008 over John L. Pelt
District 11	Joseph G. Minish D	88,294 votes · +52,652 over Julius George Feld
District 12	Matthew J. Rinaldo R	94,850 votes · +60,427 over Richard McCormack
District 13	Jim Courter R	77,301 votes · +5,493 over Helen S. Meyner
District 14	Frank J. Guarini D	67,008 votes · +45,653 over Henry J. Hill
District 15	Edward J. Patten D	55,944 votes · +2,836 over Charles W. Wiley

New Mexico

1978 U.S. House results in New Mexico
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Manuel Lujan Jr.R	118,075 votes · +47,314 over Robert M. Hawk
District 2	Harold Runnels D	95,710 votes

New York

1978 U.S. House results in New York
District	Winner	Result
District 1	William Carney R	90,115 votes · +22,935 over John Randolph
District 2	Thomas J. Downey D	64,807 votes · +11,485 over Harold J. Withers
District 3	Jerome A. Ambro Jr.D	70,526 votes · +4,068 over Gregory W. Carman
District 4	Norman F. LentC	94,711 votes · +48,203 over Everett A. Rosenblum
District 5	John W. Wydler R	84,864 votes · +24,345 over John W. Matthews
District 6	Lester L. WolffL	80,799 votes · +36,495 over Stuart L. Ain
District 7	Joseph P. Addabbo D	73,066 votes · +69,131 over Mark Elliot Scott
District 8	Benjamin S. RosenthalL	74,872 votes · +59,707 over Albert Lemishow
District 9	Geraldine Ferraro D	51,350 votes · +9,242 over Alfred A. DelliBovi
District 10	Mario Biaggi R	77,979 votes · +73,897 over Carmen Ricciardi
District 11	James H. Scheuer D	58,997 votes · +42,791 over Kenneth Huhn
District 12	Shirley Chisholm D	25,697 votes · +22,117 over Charles Gibbs
District 13	Stephen J. SolarzL	68,837 votes · +52,835 over Max Carasso
District 14	Frederick W. Richmond D	31,339 votes · +23,823 over Arthur Bramwell
District 15	Leo C. ZeferettiC	49,272 votes · +28,764 over Robert P. Whelan
District 16	Elizabeth HoltzmanL	59,703 votes · +50,298 over Larry Penner
District 17	John M. Murphy D	54,228 votes · +21,157 over John M. Peters
District 18	S. William GreenI	60,867 votes · +7,433 over Carter Burden
District 19	Charles B. RangelL	59,731 votes · +58,083 over E. Freeman Yearling
District 20	Theodore S. Weiss D	64,275 votes · +52,614 over Harry Torczyner
District 21	Robert Garcia D	23,950 votes · +23,451 over Lawrence W. Lindsley Sr.
District 22	Jonathan B. BinghamL	58,727 votes · +47,617 over Anthony J. Geidel Jr.
District 23	Peter A. Peyser D	66,354 votes · +6,899 over Angelo Martinelli
District 24	Richard Ottinger D	75,397 votes · +17,946 over Michael R. Edelman
District 25	Hamilton Fish Jr.R	114,641 votes · +83,428 over Gunars M. Ozols
District 26	Benjamin A. Gilman R	87,059 votes · +45,189 over Charles Emmet Holbrook
District 27	Matthew F. McHugh D	83,413 votes · +17,236 over Neil Tyler Wallace
District 28	Samuel S. Stratton D	139,575 votes · +103,558 over Paul H. Tocker
District 29	Gerald B. H. SolomonC	99,518 votes · +14,813 over Edward W. Pattison
District 30	Robert C. McEwenC	85,478 votes · +29,693 over Norma A. Bartle
District 31	Donald J. MitchellC	107,791 votes
District 32	James M. Hanley D	76,251 votes · +9,180 over Peter Del Giorno
District 33	Gary A. Lee R	82,501 votes · +24,215 over Roy A. Bernardi
District 34	Frank J. Horton D	122,785 votes · +104,658 over Leo J. Kesselring
District 35	Barber B. Conable Jr.R	96,119 votes · +59,691 over Francis C. Repicci
District 36	John J. LaFalce D	99,497 votes · +67,970 over Francina Joyce Cartonia
District 37	Henry J. NowakL	70,911 votes · +53,326 over Charles Poth III
District 38	Jack KempC	113,928 votes · +107,724 over James A. Peck
District 39	Stanley N. Lundine D	79,385 votes · +22,954 over Crispin Maguire

North Carolina

1978 U.S. House results in North Carolina
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Walter B. Jones Sr.D	67,716 votes · +50,902 over James Milford Newcomb
District 2	L. H. Fountain D	61,851 votes · +45,863 over Barry Lynn Gardner
District 3	Charles Whitely D	54,452 votes · +32,302 over Willard Jackson Blanchard
District 4	Ike Andrews D	74,249 votes · +69,813 over Naudeen Beek
District 5	Stephen L. Neal D	68,778 votes · +10,617 over Hamilton C. Horton
District 6	Richardson Preyer D	58,193 votes · +31,311 over George H. Bemus
District 7	Charles G. Rose III D	53,696 votes · +30,550 over Raymond Schrump
District 8	W. G. Hefner D	63,168 votes · +19,226 over Roger Lee Austin
District 9	James G. Martin R	66,157 votes · +36,396 over Charles Kimball Maxwell
District 10	James T. Broyhill R	67,004 votes
District 11	Lamar Gudger D	75,460 votes · +9,628 over R. Curtis Ratcliff

North Dakota

1978 U.S. House results in North Dakota
District	Winner	Result
At-large	Mark Andrews R	147,712 votes · +79,696 over Bruce F. Hagen

Ohio

1978 U.S. House results in Ohio
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Willis D. Gradison Jr.R	73,593 votes · +34,924 over Timothy M. Burke
District 2	Thomas A. Luken D	64,522 votes · +5,806 over Stanley J. Aronoff
District 3	Tony P. Hall D	62,849 votes · +11,016 over Dudley P. Kircher
District 4	Tennyson Guyer R	85,575 votes · +46,215 over John William Griffin
District 5	Delbert L. Latta R	85,547 votes · +34,476 over James Robert Sherek
District 6	William H. Harsha R	85,592 votes · +39,274 over Ted Strickland
District 7	Clarence J. Brown R	92,507 votes
District 8	Thomas N. Kindness R	81,156 votes · +48,663 over Luella R. Schroeder
District 9	Thomas Ludlow, Ashley D	71,709 votes · +37,383 over John C. Hoyt
District 10	Clarence E. Miller R	99,329 votes · +64,290 over James A. Plummer
District 11	J. William Stanton R	89,327 votes · +52,196 over Patrick James Donlin
District 12	Samuel L. Devine R	81,573 votes · +19,875 over James L. Baumann
District 13	Donald J. Pease D	80,875 votes · +37,606 over Mark W. Whitfield
District 14	John F. Seiberling D	82,356 votes · +51,045 over Walter J. Vogel
District 15	Chalmers P. Wylie R	91,023 votes · +54,023 over Henry W. Eckhart
District 16	Ralph S. Regula R	105,152 votes · +75,512 over Owen S. Hand Jr.
District 17	John M. Ashbrook R	87,010 votes · +44,893 over Kenneth Robert Grier
District 18	Douglas Applegate D	71,894 votes · +22,963 over William J. Ress
District 19	Lyle Williams R	71,890 votes · +1,913 over Charles J. Carney
District 20	Mary Rose Oaker D	76,973 votes
District 21	Louis Stokes D	58,934 votes · +49,401 over Bill Mack
District 22	Charles A. Vanik D	87,551 votes · +56,621 over Richard W. Sander
District 23	Ronald M. Mottl D	99,975 votes · +66,243 over Homer S. Taft

Oklahoma

1978 U.S. House results in Oklahoma
District	Winner	Result
District 1	James R. Jones D	73,886 votes · +24,482 over Paula Unruh
District 2	Michael Lynn Synar D	72,583 votes · +12,730 over Gary Richardson
District 3	Wesley Wade Watkins D	1 votes
District 4	Tom Steed D	62,993 votes · +21,572 over Seward Eliot Robb
District 5	Mickey Edwards R	71,451 votes · +53,473 over Jesse Dennis Knipp
District 6	Glenn English D	103,512 votes · +67,481 over Harold V. Hunter

Oregon

1978 U.S. House results in Oregon
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Les Aucoin D	158,706 votes · +65,066 over Nick Bunick
District 2	Al Ullman D	152,099 votes · +84,552 over Terry L. Hicks
District 3	Robert B. Duncan D	151,895 votes · +124,775 over Martin Simon
District 4	James Weaver D	124,745 votes · +27,792 over Jerry Lausmann

Pennsylvania

1978 U.S. House results in Pennsylvania
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Michael O. Myers D	104,412 votes · +66,499 over Samuel N. Fanelli
District 2	William H. Gray III D	132,594 votes · +106,809 over Roland J. Atkins
District 3	Raymond F. Lederer D	86,015 votes · +52,265 over Raymond S. Kauffman
District 4	Charles F. Dougherty R	110,445 votes · +22,890 over Joshua Eilberg
District 5	Richard T. Schulze R	110,565 votes · +73,861 over Murray P. Zealor
District 6	Gus Yatron D	106,431 votes · +68,685 over Stephen Mazur
District 7	Bob Edgar D	79,771 votes · +1,368 over Eugene Daniel Kane
District 8	Peter H. Kostmayer D	89,276 votes · +32,500 over G. Roger Bowers
District 9	Bud Shuster R	101,151 votes · +67,269 over Blaine Leroy Havice Jr.
District 10	Joseph Michael McDade R	116,003 votes · +80,282 over Gene Basalyga
District 11	Daniel J. Flood D	61,433 votes · +16,098 over Robert P. Hudock
District 12	John P. Murtha D	104,216 votes · +56,774 over Luther V. Elkin
District 13	R. Lawrence Coughlin R	112,711 votes · +65,560 over Alan Bendix Rubenstein
District 14	William S. Moorhead D	68,004 votes · +18,012 over Stan Thomas
District 15	Donald Lawrence Ritter R	65,986 votes · +7,909 over Fred B. Rooney
District 16	Robert S. Walker R	91,910 votes · +64,524 over Charles W. Boohar
District 17	Allen Ertel D	79,234 votes · +25,621 over Thomas Richard Rippon
District 18	Douglas Walgren D	88,299 votes · +23,211 over Ted Jacob
District 19	William F. Goodling R	105,424 votes · +76,847 over Raj Kumar
District 20	Joseph M. Gaydos D	97,745 votes · +60,000 over Kathleen M. Meyer
District 21	Donald A. Bailey D	73,712 votes · +8,090 over Robert H. Miller
District 22	Austin J. Murphy D	99,559 votes · +60,041 over Marilyn Coyle Ecoff
District 23	William F. Clinger Jr.R	73,194 votes · +11,537 over Joseph S. Ammerman
District 24	Marc Lincoln Marks R	87,041 votes · +38,147 over Joseph P. Vigorito
District 25	Eugene V. Atkinson D	68,293 votes · +6,133 over Tim Shaffer

Rhode Island

1978 U.S. House results in Rhode Island
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Fernand J. St Germain D	86,768 votes · +31,856 over Jerry Slocum
District 2	Edward P. Beard D	87,397 votes · +8,672 over Claudine Schneider

South Carolina

1978 U.S. House results in South Carolina
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Mendel J. Davis D	65,621 votes · +22,627 over C. C. Wannamaker
District 2	Floyd D. Spence R	71,032 votes · +18,434 over Jack Solomon Bass
District 3	Butler C. Derrick D	80,968 votes · +63,044 over Anthony Panuccio
District 4	Carroll Campbell R	51,483 votes · +6,126 over Max M. Heller
District 5	Kenneth L. Holland D	63,013 votes · +49,806 over Harold Hough
District 6	John W. Jenrette Jr.D	69,220 votes

South Dakota

1978 U.S. House results in South Dakota
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Thomas A. Daschle D	64,683 votes · +139 over Leo K. Thorsness
District 2	James Abdnor R	70,780 votes · +15,264 over Bob Samuelson

Tennessee

1978 U.S. House results in Tennessee
District	Winner	Result
District 1	James H. Jimmy Quillen R	92,143 votes · +41,449 over William Gordon Ball
District 2	John J. Duncan Sr.R	125,082 votes · +97,337 over Margaret Francis
District 3	Marilyn Lloyd D	108,282 votes · +94,747 over Dan Rucker East
District 4	Albert N. Gore Jr.D	108,695 votes
District 5	William Hill Boner D	68,608 votes · +21,320 over William Dean Goodwin
District 6	Robin Beard R	114,630 votes · +75,676 over C. Ronald Arline
District 7	Ed Jones D	96,863 votes · +60,860 over Ross Earl Cook
District 8	Harold E. Ford Sr.D	80,776 votes · +47,097 over Duncan Ragsdale

Texas

1978 U.S. House results in Texas
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Sam B. Hall Jr.D	73,708 votes · +53,008 over Fred Hudson
District 2	Charles Wilson D	66,986 votes · +38,402 over James H. Dillion
District 3	Jim Collins R	96,406 votes
District 4	Ray Roberts D	58,336 votes · +21,754 over Frank S. Glenn
District 5	Jim Mattox D	35,524 votes · +852 over Thomas W. Pauken
District 6	William Philip Gramm D	66,025 votes · +30,632 over Wes Mowery
District 7	Bill Archer R	128,214 votes · +105,799 over Robert Laurence Hutchings
District 8	Robert Eckhardt D	39,429 votes · +14,756 over Nick Gearhart
District 9	Jack Brooks D	50,792 votes · +21,319 over Randy Evans
District 10	J. J. Jake Pickle D	94,529 votes · +65,201 over Emmett Leroy Hudspeth
District 11	Marvin Leath D	53,354 votes · +3,389 over Jack Burgess
District 12	James Bryndan Wright D	46,456 votes · +25,092 over Claude K. Brown
District 13	Jack Hightower D	75,271 votes · +49,996 over Clifford Alvin Jones
District 14	Joe Wyatt Jr.D	63,953 votes · +39,628 over Joy Yates
District 15	E. de la Garza D	54,560 votes · +26,707 over Robert Lendol McDonald
District 16	Richard C. Dick White D	53,090 votes · +30,347 over Michael Giere
District 17	Charles W. Stenholm D	69,030 votes · +36,728 over Billy L. Fisher
District 18	Goerge Thomas Leland D	36,783 votes · +35,548 over Deborah Vee Vernier
District 19	Kent Hance D	54,729 votes · +6,659 over George Bush
District 20	Henry B. Gonzalez D	51,584 votes
District 21	Thomas G. Loeffler R	84,336 votes · +20,835 over Nelson William Wolff
District 22	Ronald E. Paul R	54,643 votes · +1,200 over Bob Gammage
District 23	Abraham Chick Kazen Jr.D	62,649 votes · +55,464 over Agustin Mata
District 24	Martin Frost D	39,201 votes · +5,887 over Leo Berman

Utah

1978 U.S. House results in Utah
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Gun McKay D	93,892 votes · +8,864 over Jed J. Richardson
District 2	Dan Marriott R	121,492 votes · +52,593 over Edwin Brown Firmage

Vermont

1978 U.S. House results in Vermont
District	Winner	Result
At-large	James M. Jeffords R	90,688 votes · +67,460 over Sarah Marie Dietz

Virginia

1978 U.S. House results in Virginia
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Paul S. Trible Jr.R	89,158 votes · +54,580 over Lewis Burwell Puller
District 2	G. William Whitehurst R	63,512 votes
District 3	David E. Satterfield III D	104,550 votes · +90,097 over Alan Robert Ogden
District 4	Robert W. Bob Daniel Jr.R	77,827 votes
District 5	W. C. Dan Daniel D	83,575 votes
District 6	M. Caldwell Butler R	88,647 votes
District 7	J. Kenneth Robinson R	84,517 votes · +37,567 over Lewis Perley Fickett Jr.
District 8	Herbert E. Harris II D	56,137 votes · +3,741 over Charles E. Coe
District 9	William C. Wampler R	76,877 votes · +29,510 over Charles Champ Clark
District 10	Joseph L. Fisher D	70,892 votes · +8,911 over Frank R. Wolf

Washington

1978 U.S. House results in Washington
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Joel Pritchard R	99,942 votes · +47,236 over Janice Niemi
District 2	Allan Byron Swift D	70,620 votes · +3,827 over John Nance Garner
District 3	Don Bonker D	82,616 votes · +24,346 over Richard H. Bennett Sr.
District 4	Mike McCormack D	85,602 votes · +31,213 over Susan Roylance
District 5	Thomas S. Foley D	77,201 votes · +8,440 over Duane Alton
District 6	Norman D. Dicks D	71,057 votes · +27,417 over James Edward Beaver
District 7	Mike Lowry D	67,450 votes · +8,398 over John E. Cunningham

West Virginia

1978 U.S. House results in West Virginia
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Bob Mollohan D	76,372 votes · +32,310 over Gene A. Haynes
District 2	Harley O. Staggers D	69,683 votes · +13,411 over Cleveland Keith Benedict
District 3	John M. Slack D	74,837 votes · +23,253 over David Michael Staton
District 4	Nick Joe Rahall II D	70,035 votes

Wisconsin

1978 U.S. House results in Wisconsin
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Les Aspin D	77,146 votes · +12,709 over William Watson Petrie III
District 2	Robert W. Kastenmeier D	99,631 votes · +28,219 over James A. Wright
District 3	Alvin J. Baldus D	96,326 votes · +39,266 over Michael Steven Ellis
District 4	Clement J. Zablocki D	101,575 votes · +49,450 over Elroy Charles Honadel
District 5	Henry S. Reuss D	85,067 votes · +54,882 over James R. W. Medina
District 6	William A. Steiger R	114,742 votes · +65,957 over Robert J. Steffes
District 7	David R. Obey D	110,874 votes · +45,124 over Vinton A. Vesta
District 8	Toby Roth R	101,856 votes · +27,931 over Robert J. Cornell
District 9	F. James Sensenbrenner Jr.R	118,386 votes · +43,179 over Matthew J. Flynn

Wyoming

1978 U.S. House results in Wyoming
District	Winner	Result
At-large	Dick Cheney R	75,855 votes · +22,333 over William D. Bagley