2005 United States state legislative elections
2005 United States state legislative elections
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] 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 summaries
New Jersey
All seats of the New Jersey General Assembly were up for election. Assembly members were elected to two-year terms in two-member districts.[ 4] [ 5] [ 6]
Virginia
All seats of the Virginia House of Delegates are up for election. Delegates are elected to two-year terms in single-member districts. Democrats made slight gains, but Republicans maintained the majority.[ 7]
House of Delegates
Party
Before
After
Change
Republican
60
57
Democratic
38
40
Independents
2
3
Total
100
100
Territorial and federal district summaries
Northern Mariana Islands
All seats of the Northern Mariana Islands House of Representatives and half of the Northern Mariana Islands Senate are up for election. Senators are elected to four-year terms and Representatives are elected to two-year terms.
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.
References
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