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. 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.
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 | 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 |