Talk:2024 United States state legislative elections
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The article says that Democrats broke the Republican's super-majority in the Ohio House of Reps, however, veto power is 3/5, not 2/3, and the democrats only won 34 seats out of 99, and the GOP won 65 (well over the 59/60 required to override a veto). - an ohioanKoyana89 (talk)15:54, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Adjusted the text to clarify per the source on the statement. Ohio Republicans still have the 60 votes needed to overturn a veto, however they no longer have the 66 votes needed to advance some aspects of legislation over Democratic objections. (The example in the source is making a bill effective upon signing as opposed to having to wait 90 days for it to go into effect.)—Carter (Tcr25) (talk)17:32, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@OutlawRun While I was reading over the page I was questioning how accurate it is to list Alaska's House of Reps as a "coalition hold" given the coalition is not in of itself a political party, but an agreement between two or multiple parties, and previously it was governed by a Republican led coalition and transitioned into a Democratic led one after the election, so would coalition-hold not be somewhat misleading?Talthiel (talk)21:01, 10 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
It's a pretty unprecedented type of shift, with the only examples I can think of being in 2022 and 2024 for Alaska (though there may be others). Even the news media isn't all that sure how to refer to Alaska, sometimes calling the chambers Republican-controlled because they hold a numerical majority and other times Democratic-controlled since they make up most of the governing coalitions. I think it would betechnically more accurate to use different colors to differentiate between liberal-leaning and conservative-leaning coalitions, but that gets really murky when you try to start applying that to all other coalition instances, and I think it's simpler, for the sake of the national article, to just have one color/categorization for "coalition." The numbers designating "chambers before" and "chambers after" always have footnotes that explain more details about the nature of the coalitions, which I think is sufficient to clarify the maps in the infobox.
In this particular instance, it could be explained as "this chamber was controlled by a coalition both before and after the election," irrespective of the actual makeup of that coalition. It is worth noting that both coalitions share membership, that being theBush Caucus, which also could lend more credence to the idea of it being a "coalition hold," even though most of the membership shifted.
This isn't even getting into the confusion about whether to just count the Alaska House pre-2024 as a Republican-held chamber. Some do, while others don't. It gets complicated because ofThomas Baker's appointment as a Republican to a previously independent-held seat, especially because he served as a Republican but ran for re-election as an independent, as far as I can tell. I'd rather not even get into that if possible.
Either way, I think "coalition hold" gets the point across fine enough, but I'm unsure enough that I think further discussion could be helpful.OutlawRun (talk)21:30, 10 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
