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2013 United States state legislative elections

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November 5, 2013

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3 legislative chambers
2 states

	Majority party	Minority party	Third party

Party	Republican	Democratic	Coalition
Chambers before	58	39	2^[a]
Chambers after	58	39	2^[a]
Overall change

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

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

The2013 United States state legislative elections were held on November 5, 2013. Three legislative chambers in two states held regularly scheduled elections. Theseoff-year elections coincided with otherstate and local elections, includinggubernatorial elections in two states.^[1]

Legislative elections were held for theNew Jersey Senate,New Jersey General Assembly, and theVirginia House of Delegates. In New Jersey, Democrats retained control of their majorities in the Senate and General Assembly.^[2] Republicans held a majority in the Virginia House of Delegates.

Summary table

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Regularly scheduled elections were held in 3 of the 99 state legislative chambers in the United States. Nationwide, regularly scheduled elections were held for 220 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
New Jersey	40	40	100	2/4^[b]	80	80	100	4
Virginia	0	40	0	4	100	100	100	2

State summaries

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New Jersey

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Main articles:2013 New Jersey General Assembly election and2013 New Jersey Senate election

All seats of theNew Jersey Senate and theNew Jersey General Assembly were up for election. Senators were elected to four-year terms in single-member districts, while Assembly members were elected to two-year terms in two-member districts.^[3] Democrats retained majority control in both chambers.

Senate
Party		Leader	Before	After
	Democratic	Stephen Sweeney	24	24
	Republican	Thomas Kean Jr.	16	16
Total			40	40

General Assembly
Party		Leader	Before	After
	Democratic	Sheila Oliver	48	48
	Republican	Jon Bramnick	32	32
Total			80	80

Virginia

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Main article:2013 Virginia House of Delegates election

All seats of theVirginia House of Delegates are up for election; theVirginia Senate will not hold regularly scheduled elections in 2013. Delegates are elected to two-year terms in single-member districts. Republicans maintained a majority.

House of Delegates
Party		Leader	Before	After	Change
	Republican	William J. Howell	67	67
	Independent	Lacey Putney	1	0	1
	Democratic	David Toscano	32	33	1
Total			100	100

Special elections

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Maine

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District		Incumbent			This race
Chamber	No.	Representative	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Senate	19	Seth Goodall	Democratic	2008	Incumbent resigned to join theSmall Business Administration. New member electedAugust 27, 2013. Democratic Hold.	▌YEloise Vitelli (Democratic) 50.6% ▌ Paula Benoit (Republican) 45.5% ▌ Daniel Stromgren (Green) 3.9% ^[4]

Recall elections

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Colorado

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Main article:2013 Colorado recall election

District		Incumbent			This race
Chamber	No.	Representative	Party	First elected	Results	Vote
Senate	3	Angela Giron	Democratic	2010	Recall election passedSeptember 10, 2013.	{{plainlist \|*YYes 55.85% No 44.15%
Senate	11	John Morse	Democratic	2006	Recall election passedSeptember 10, 2013.	YYes 50.89% No 49.11%

Notes

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^^a ^bTheNew York Senate was controlled by a coalition of Republicans and members of theIndependent Democratic Conference. In theWashington State Senate, two Democrats caucused with Republicans to form theMajority Coalition Caucus. Three additional Democrats also caucused with the majority.
^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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^"State legislative elections, 2013".Ballotpedia. RetrievedDecember 26, 2022.
^"Despite Christie's win, Democrats retain control of N.J. Legislature".NJ.com. November 6, 2013. RetrievedOctober 6, 2014.
^"New Jersey Secretary of State".state.nj.us.
^"August 27, 2013 – Special Election – State Senate District 19".

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