2005 United States state legislative elections

2005 United States state legislative elections

← 2004 November 8, 2005 2006 →

2 legislative chambers
2 states
  Majority party Minority party
 
Party Republican Democratic
Chambers before 51 47
Chambers after 51 47
Overall change Steady Steady

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
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
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
Northern Mariana Islands C 3-2-2-2 6-3 Coalition Takeover

Lower houses

State Previous LH Result Party control
Northern Mariana Islands C 9-7-1-1 11-7 Coalition Takeover

See also


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