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1978-11-07 U.S. House Election Results for Tennessee (District 05)

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Election Year:
Election Type:
Runoff Election: No Yes
State:
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Map Data to Display: Vote Margin
Winner
Vote Margin %
Total Votes
District Boundaries



 
County Bill Boner
(D)
Bill Goodwin
(R)
Henry Haile
(I)
Other Margin TOTAL
TOTAL 68,60851.4% 47,28835.4% 17,67413.2% 380.0% 21,320 133,608
Total R vote: 47,288 (35.4%)      Total D vote: 68,608 (51.4%)      Total Other vote: 17,712 (13.3%)
* incumbent
Campaign finance data for this election**:
Total Disbursements: $192,960 $40,494 $5,838
Total Receipts: $0 $0 $0

**Financial data shown here takes into account all elections for this office during this cycle, including primary, special and runoff elections, if any.
Source: https://www.fec.gov/data/elections/house/TN/05/1978

Campaign finance data for this election**:

Bill Boner
Total Disbursements: $192,960
Bill Goodwin
Total Disbursements: $40,494

**Financial data shown here takes into account all elections for this office during this cycle, including primary, special and runoff elections, if any.
Source: https://www.fec.gov/data/elections/house/TN/05/1978

Henry Haile
Total Disbursements: $5,838

Republican Primary
Pos Candidate Votes %
1   Bill Goodwin 7,742 88.0%
2   Roy Stranahan 1,019 11.6%
    Other 40 0.5%
TOTAL VOTES 8,801  


Democrat Primary
Pos Candidate Votes %
1   Bill Boner 50,987 52.9%
2   Charles Galbreath 25,768 26.8%
3   Elliott Ozment 8,852 9.2%
4   Jeannine Honicker 5,876 6.1%
5   Porter Freeman 3,500 3.6%
6   Joe McEwen 1,229 1.3%
7   Dogan Williams 90 0.1%
    Other 6 0.0%
TOTAL VOTES 96,308