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2003 United States state legislative elections

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November 7, 2003

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8 legislative chambers in 4 states

	Majority party	Minority party

Party	Republican	Democratic
Chambers before	53^[a]	43^[a]
Chambers after	53^[b]	44^[b]
Overall change		1

Map of upper house elections:
     Democrats gained control     Democrats retained control
     Republicans retained control
     No regularly-scheduled elections

Map of lower house elections:
     Democrats retained control
     Republicans retained control
     No regularly-scheduled elections

The2003 United States state legislative elections were held on November 7, 2003, alongside otherelections. Elections were held for 8 legislative chambers in four states.^[1] Both chambers of theNorthern Mariana Islands legislature were up.

Partisan change only occurred in one chamber, as Democrats won control of theNew Jersey Senate, which was previously tied.^[2] However, Democrats did maintain control of theMississippi Legislature, theLouisiana Legislature, and theNew Jersey General Assembly. Republicans maintained control of the Virginia legislature, bringing a post-Civil War low for the Democratic Party.^[3]

Summary table

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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
State	Seats up	Total	% up	Term	Seats up	Total	% up	Term
Louisiana	39	39	100	4	105	105	100	4
Mississippi	52	52	100	4	122	122	100	4
New Jersey	40	40	100	2/4^[c]	80	80	100	2
Virginia	40	40	100	4	100	100	100	2

Election predictions

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Ratings are designated as follows:

"Tossup": Competitive, no advantage
"Lean": Competitive, slight advantage
"Likely": Not competitive, but opposition could make significant gains
"Solid": Not competitive at all

State	Chamber	Last election	The Cook Political Report Oct. 4, 2002^[4]	Result
Louisiana	Senate	D 26–13	Likely D	D 24–15
Louisiana	House of Representatives	D 74–31	Solid D	D 66–37–2
Mississippi	Senate	D 34–18	Solid D	D 29–23
Mississippi	House of Representatives	D 86–33–3	Solid D	D 76-46
New Jersey	Senate	20–20	Tossup	D 22–18
New Jersey	General Assembly	D 44–36	Lean D	D 47-33
Virginia	Senate	R 21–19	Lean R	R 24-16
Virginia	House of Delegates	R 64–34–2	Solid R	R 61–37–2

State summaries

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Louisiana

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Main articles:2003 Louisiana Senate election and2003 Louisiana House of Representatives election

All seats of theLouisiana State Senate and theLouisiana House of Representatives were up for election to four-year terms in single-member districts. Democrats maintained control of both chambers.

Louisiana State Senate
Party		Before	After	Change
	Democratic	26	24	2
	Republican	13	15	2
Total		39	39

Louisiana House of Representatives
Party		Before	After	Change
	Democratic	74	66	8
	Republican	31	37	6
	Independent	0	2	2
Total		105	105

Mississippi

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Main articles:2003 Mississippi Senate election and2003 Mississippi House of Representatives election

All seats of theMississippi State Senate and theMississippi House of Representatives were up for election to four-year terms in single-member districts. Democrats maintained control of both houses.

Mississippi State Senate
Party		Before	After
	Democratic	29	29
	Republican	23	23
Total		52	52

Mississippi House of Representatives
Party		Before	After	Change
	Democratic	81	76	5
	Republican	38	46	8
	Independent	3	0	3
Total		122	122

New Jersey

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Main articles:2003 New Jersey Senate election and2003 New Jersey General Assembly election

All seats of theNew Jersey Senate and theNew Jersey General Assembly were up for election. Senators were elected to two-year terms in single-member districts, while Assembly members were elected to two-year terms in two-member districts.^[5] Democrats retained control in of the lower house and won control of the upper house.

Senate
Party		Before	After	Change
	Democratic	20	22	2
	Republican	20	18	2
Total		40	40

General Assembly
Party		Before	After	Change
	Democratic	42	47	5
	Republican	37	33	4
	Green	1	0	1
Total		80	80

Virginia

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Main articles:2003 Virginia Senate election and2003 Virginia House of Delegates election

All seats of theSenate of Virginia and theVirginia House of Delegates were up for election in single-member districts. Senators were elected to four-year terms, while delegates served terms of two years. Republicans maintained control of both houses.

Senate of Virginia
Party		Before	After	Change
	Democratic	19	16	3
	Republican	21	24	3
Total		40	40

Virginia House of Delegates
Party		Before	After	Change
	Republican	64	61	3
	Democratic	34	37	3
	Independent	2	2
Total		100	100

Territorial and federal district summaries

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Northern Mariana Islands

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Main article:2003 Northern Mariana Islands general election

All seats of theNorthern Mariana Islands House of Representatives and half of theNorthern Mariana Islands Senate are up for election. Senators are elected to four-year terms and Representatives are elected to two-year terms.

Senate
Party		Before	After	Change
	Republican	5	2	3
	Democratic	3	2	1
Total		9	9

House of Representatives
Party		Before	After	Change
	Republican	16	7	9
	Democratic	1	1
Total		18	18

Notes

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^^a ^bTheOregon Senate,North Carolina House of Representatives, andNew Jersey Senate were tied prior to the election. Thus, they are not included in this total.
^^a ^bTheOregon Senate andNorth Carolina House of Representatives were tied prior to the election. Thus, they are not included in this 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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^https://ballotpedia.org/State_legislative_elections,_2003
^"Official List, Candidate Returns for State Senate for November 2003 General Election"(PDF). Archived fromthe original(PDF) on March 5, 2016. RetrievedDecember 3, 2015.
^University of Virginia, Center for Politics. Virginia Votes 2003: Not much to remember, not much to forget.[1]Archived 2015-07-20 at theWayback Machine
^Jacobson, Louis (October 4, 2002)."2002 State Legislature Ratings".The Cook Political Report:149–150.Archived from the original on August 24, 2020 – via Harvard Dataverse.
^"New Jersey Secretary of State".state.nj.us.

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