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2005 United States state legislative elections

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November 8, 2005

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2 legislative chambers
2 states

	Majority party	Minority party

Party	Republican	Democratic
Chambers before	50^[a]	48^[a]
Chambers after	50	48
Overall change

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

The2005 United States state legislative elections were held on November 8, 2005. Two legislative chambers in two states held regularly scheduled elections. Theseoff-year elections coincided with otherstate and local elections, includinggubernatorial elections in two states.^[1] Both chambers of theNorthern Mariana Islands legislature was up.

Democrats maintained control of theNew Jersey General Assembly and Republicans maintained control of theVirginia House of Delegates.^[2]^[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
New Jersey	0	0	100	2/4^[b]	80	80	100	2
Virginia	0	0	100	4	100	100	100	2

State summaries

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New Jersey

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Main article:2005 New Jersey General Assembly election

All seats of theNew Jersey General Assembly were up for election. Assembly members were elected to two-year terms in two-member districts.^[4] Democrats slightly increased their majority control.^[5]^[6]

General Assembly
Party		Before	After	Change
	Democratic	47	49	2
	Republican	33	31	2
Total		80	80

Virginia

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Main article:2005 Virginia House of Delegates election

All seats of theVirginia 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	3
	Democratic	38	40	2
	Independents	2	3	1
Total		100	100

Territorial and federal district summaries

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Northern Mariana Islands

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Main article:2005 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.

House of Representatives
Party		Before	After	Change
	Republican	7	7
	Democratic	1	2	1
	Independents	1	2	1
	Covenant Party	9	7	2
Total		18	18

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

Notes

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^^a ^bTheIowa 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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