I had a similar problem with multiple item types in the list. In my case the list item was either a section (label) item or a common list item.
As mentioned by Sam, Android system always tries to recycle if possible to conserve resources. That means, developers need to keep track of the View on ListView themselves. For the entity, or so-called the presentation data structure, you can have something to keep track of the selected/de-selected state, for example.
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