2001 United States state legislative elections

2001 United States state legislative elections

← 2000 November 6, 2001 2002 →

4 legislative chambers in 2 states
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Party Republican Democratic Coalition
Chambers before 51 45 1
Chambers after 49 47 1
Overall change Decrease 2 Increase 2 Steady

Map of upper house elections:
     Republicans retained control
     Split body formed
     No regularly-scheduled elections

Map of lower house elections:
     Democrats gained control
     Republicans retained control
     No regularly-scheduled elections

The 2001 United States state legislative elections were held on November 6, 2001, during President George W. Bush's first term in office. Elections were held for four legislative chambers in two states, simultaneous to those states' gubernatorial elections. Both chambers of the Northern Mariana Islands legislature were up as well.

These were the first elections affected by the 2000 redistricting cycle, which reapportioned state legislatures based on data from the 2000 United States census.

Republicans maintained control of both houses of the Virginia General Assembly, while Democrats won control of the New Jersey General Assembly, and evenly split the State Senate. Democrats additionally won control of the Washington House of Representatives through special elections.

Summary table

Regularly-scheduled elections were held in 4 of the 99 state legislative chambers in the United States. Nationwide, regularly-scheduled elections were held for 260 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
Seats up Total % up Term Seats up Total % up Term
New Jersey 40 40 100 2/4 80 80 100 2
Virginia 40 40 100 4 100 100 100 2

State summaries

Upper houses

State Previous UH Result Party control
New Jersey R 24-16 20-20 Split body formed
Virginia R 21-19 R 21-19 Republican Hold

Lower houses

State Previous LH Result Party control
New Jersey R 45-35 D 44-36 Democratic Takeover
Virginia R 52-47-1 R 64-34-2 Republican hold

Territorial and federal district summaries

Upper houses

State Previous UH Result Party control
Northern Mariana Islands R 6-2-1 R 4-3-1-1 Republican Hold

Lower houses

State Previous LH Result Party control
Northern Mariana Islands R 11-6-1 R 16-1-1 Republican hold

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