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Current state legislator party composition

The party labels attached to current state legislative role records, shown state by state.

How are current state legislative roles distributed by party?

State legislators by party

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What this chart says

The current Open States snapshot contains 4,035 Republican-labeled roles, 3,247 Democratic-labeled roles, and 157 other or unlisted roles.

How to read it

Groups exact source party labels containing Democrat or Republican into those two display categories; every other label remains Other / not listed.

Important limits

  • This describes current sourced role records, not election results, legal chamber control, coalition control, or ideology.
  • Nebraska's formally nonpartisan legislature and all other non-major labels remain in Other / not listed.
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Current state legislator party composition: source values used by Election.org
GroupDemocratic labelsRepublican labelsOther / not listed
New Hampshire1812272
Pennsylvania1251270
Georgia1031320
New York144690
Minnesota101990
Massachusetts167301
Missouri621290
Maine95876
Maryland136520
Connecticut127600
Vermont107703
Texas741050
Illinois118590
Mississippi591112
North Carolina671012
South Carolina471230
Kansas461190
Florida461111
Indiana401091
Montana60900
Iowa50990
Michigan72760
Oklahoma271200
Washington89580
Louisiana421010
Alabama371030
North Dakota161240
Virginia84550
Kentucky261120
Arkansas261070
West Virginia111220
Ohio43890
Tennessee301020
Wisconsin60720
New Jersey82380
California90290
Rhode Island98141
New Mexico69420
Idaho15900
South Dakota8970
Utah20831
Colorado66340
Wyoming8850
Arizona40500
Oregon55350
Puerto Rico0081
Hawaii62130
Nevada40230
Delaware42200
Alaska23325
Nebraska0049
District of Columbia1102
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