2005_United_States_state_legislative_elections

2005 United States state legislative elections

2005 United States state legislative elections

State legislature elections in the United States

For related races, see 2005 United States 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.

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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.

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State summaries

Lower houses

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Territorial and federal district summaries

Upper houses

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Lower houses

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See also

Notes

  1. The Iowa Senate was evenly split. Thus it is not included in either total.
  2. The upper houses of Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Texas use a 2-4-4 term length system.

References

  1. [1]
    "State legislative elections, 2005". Ballotpedia. Retrieved February 7, 2023.
  2. [2]
    https://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/election-information-2005.sdoc
  3. [3]
    "Election Results - Virginia Department of Elections".
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