2005 United States state legislative elections
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Map of lower house elections: Democrats retained control Republicans retained control No regularly-scheduled elections |
The 2005 United States state legislative elections were held on November 8, 2005. Two legislative chambers in two states held regularly-scheduled elections. These off-year elections coincided with other state and local elections, including gubernatorial elections in two states.[1] Both chambers of the Northern Mariana Islands legislature was up.
Democrats maintained control of the New Jersey General Assembly and Republicans maintained control of the Virginia House of Delegates.[2][3]
Summary table
Regularly-scheduled elections were held in 8 of the 99 state legislative chambers in the United States. Nationwide, regularly-scheduled elections were held for 578 of the 7,383 legislative seats. This table only covers regularly-scheduled elections; additional special elections took place concurrently with these regularly-scheduled elections.
State | Upper House | Lower House | ||||||
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Seats up | Total | % up | Term | Seats up | Total | % up | Term | |
New Jersey | 0 | 0 | 100 | 2/4[b] | 80 | 80 | 100 | 2 |
Virginia | 0 | 0 | 100 | 4 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 2 |
State summaries
Lower houses
State | Previous LH | Result | Party control |
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New Jersey | D 47-33 | D 49-31 | Democratic hold |
Virginia | R 61-37-2 | R 57-40-3 | Republican hold |
Territorial and federal district summaries
Upper houses
State | Previous UH | Result | Party control |
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Northern Mariana Islands | C 3-2-2-2 | 6-3 | Coalition Takeover |
Lower houses
State | Previous LH | Result | Party control |
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Northern Mariana Islands | C 9-7-1-1 | 11-7 | Coalition Takeover |
See also
Notes
- ^ a b The Iowa Senate was evenly split. Thus it is not included in either total.
- ^ The upper houses of Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Texas use a 2-4-4 term length system.
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- California
- Maine
- New Jersey
- Ohio
- Pennsylvania
- Texas
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Allentown, PA
- Arlington, TX
- Atlanta, GA
- Boston, MA
- Buffalo, NY
- Charlotte, NC
- Cincinnati, OH
- Cleveland, OH
- Detroit, MI
- Durham, NC
- El Paso, TX
- Fayetteville, NC
- Fort Worth, TX
- Houston, TX
- Jersey City, NJ
- Manchester, NH
- Minneapolis, MN
- Mobile, AL
- New York, NY
- Omaha, NE
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Raleigh, NC
- Riverside, CA
- San Antonio, TX
- San Bernardino, CA
- San Diego, CA (special)
- Seattle, WA
- St. Louis, MO
- St. Paul, MN
- St. Petersburg, FL
- Springfield, MA
- Winston-Salem, NC
- Worcester, MA