2005 United States state legislative elections
November 8, 2005
2 legislative chambers
2 states
  Majority party Minority party
 
Party Republican Democratic
Chambers before 51[lower-alpha 1] 47[lower-alpha 1]
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.[1] 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.[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 Upper House Lower House
Seats up Total  % up Term Seats up Total  % up Term
New Jersey 0 0 100 2/4[lower-alpha 2] 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

Notes

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