Elections / 1978 · House · CA

California sent 26 Democrats and 17 Republicans to the US House in 1978.

Name: 1978 United States House elections in California — results
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43 districts. Each row shows the winning party, margin, and member elected. Vote counts are the certified district totals.

California — 1978 House districts

Source: MIT Election Data + Science Lab, US House returns (party-classified by literal ballot party).

District	Won	Margin	Member elected	Votes
CA-01	D	+18.7%	Harold T Johnson	210,812
CA-02	R	−6.7%	Don H Clausen	220,260
CA-03	D	+6.9%	Robert T Matsui	197,503
CA-04	D	+10.7%	Vic Fazio	158,497
CA-05	D	+33.7%	John L Burton	158,649
CA-06	D	+40.3%	Phillip Burton	119,768
CA-07	D	+29.7%	George Miller	172,865
CA-08	D	+14.7%	Ronald V Dellums	165,305
CA-09	D	+34.9%	Fortney H Stark JR	134,879
CA-10	D	+34.3%	Don Edwards	125,862
CA-11	D	+24.9%	Leo J Ryan	153,464
CA-12	R	−51.5%	Paul N McCloskey JR	160,085
CA-13	D	+18.0%	Norman Y Mineta	175,361
CA-14	R	−10.8%	Norman D Shumway	179,727
CA-15	D	+20.2%	Tony Coelho	125,126
CA-16	D	+22.7%	Leon E Panetta	170,358
CA-17	R	−9.0%	Charles Pashayan JR	149,181
CA-18	R	−18.5%	William M Thomas	144,563
CA-19	R	−47.5%	Robert J Lagomarsino	171,751
CA-20	R	−32.8%	Barry M Goldwater	195,409
CA-21	D	+23.6%	James C Corman	124,138
CA-22	R	−29.3%	Carlos J Moorhead	153,944
CA-23	D	+31.3%	Anthony C Beilenson	178,994
CA-24	D	+30.1%	Henry A Waxman	135,771
CA-25	D	+34.8%	Edward R Roybal	68,086
CA-26	R	−100.0%	John H Rousselot	113,059
CA-27	R	−2.0%	Robert K Dornan	175,272
CA-28	D	+100.0%	Julian C Dixon	97,592
CA-29	D	+70.0%	Augustus G Hawkins	76,726
CA-30	D	+42.8%	George E Danielson	92,752
CA-31	D	+35.5%	Charles H Wilson	82,157
CA-32	D	+49.0%	Glenn M Anderson	103,609
CA-33	R	−12.0%	Wayne Grisham	142,073
CA-34	R	−10.1%	Dan Lungren	168,572
CA-35	D	+8.0%	Jim Lloyd	148,830
CA-36	D	+25.8%	George E Brown JR	127,865
CA-37	R	−26.6%	Jerry Lewis	173,588
CA-38	D	+17.2%	Jerry M Patterson	128,769
CA-39	R	−27.4%	William E Dannemeyer	176,051
CA-40	R	−31.9%	Robert E Badham	224,240
CA-41	R	−16.3%	Bob Wilson	185,225
CA-42	D	+47.5%	Lionel Van Deerlin	115,445
CA-43	R	−37.3%	Clair W Burgener	243,458