2017 United States state legislative elections

2017 United States state legislative elections

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3 legislative chambers
2 states
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Party Republican Democratic Tie (draw)
Chambers before 68 30 1
Chambers after 67 31 1
Overall change Decrease 1 Increase 1 -

The 2017 United States state legislative elections were held on November 7, 2017. Three legislative chambers in two states held regularly-scheduled elections. These off-year elections coincided with other state and local elections, including gubernatorial elections in two states.

Summary table

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
Seats up Total % up Term Seats up Total % up Term
New Jersey 0 40 0 2/4 80 80 100 4
Virginia 40 40 100 4 100 100 100 2

State summaries

New Jersey

All seats of the New Jersey General Assembly were up for election to two-year terms in coterminous two-member districts. The New Jersey Senate held elections for four-year terms. Democrats maintained majority control of both houses with expanded majorities.

54 26
Democratic Republican
Parties Candidates Seats Popular Vote
2015 2017 +/- Strength Vote % Change
Democratic 80 52 54 Increase2 68% 2,266,879 58.1% Increase4.8%
Republican 78 28 26 Decrease2 33% 1,613,865 41.4% Decrease4.5%
Green 4 0 0 Steady 0% 4,828 0.1% Decrease0.3%
Libertarian 4 0 0 Steady 0% 2,804 0.1% Steady0.0%
Solidarity 1 0 0 Steady 0% 821 0.02% N/A
Independent 14 0 0 Steady 0% 13,537 0.3% Steady0.0%
Total 181 80 80 0 100.0% 3,902,734 100.0% -
2017 New Jersey State Senate election results map.svg
25 15
Democratic Republican
Summary of the November 7, 2017, New Jersey State Senate election results
Parties Seats Popular vote
2013 2017 +/− Strength Vote % Change
  Democratic Party 24 25 Increase 1 62.50% 1,185,420 59.5% +12.1%
  Republican Party 16 15 Decrease 1 37.50% 802,418 40.3% −11.8%
  Green Party - - - - 1,306 0.1% -
  Libertarian Party - - - - 574 <0.1% −0.1%
  Independent - - - - 2,545 0.1% −0.4%
Totals 40 40 0 100.0% 1,992,263 100.0% -
Source: [1] Election Statistics – New Jersey Secretary of State (note: does not include blank, write-in and over/under votes)
Popular vote
Democratic
59.50%
Republican
40.28%
Green
0.07%
Libertarian
0.03%
Other
0.13%
Senate seats
Democratic
62.50%
Republican
37.50%

Virginia

All seats of the Virginia House of Delegates were up for election in single-member districts. Delegates serve terms of two years. Democrats gained 15 seats and fell one seat short of a majority.

 Republican (51)
 Democratic (49)
Party Leader Delegates Votes
Of total ± Of total ±
Republican Party William J. Howell 51 51.00%
51 / 100
Decrease15 1,076,081 43.81%
Decrease15.79
Democratic Party David Toscano 49 49.00%
49 / 100
Increase15 1,304,241 53.10%
Increase17.35
Other parties
Write-in N/A 0 0.00%
0 / 100
Steady 36,640 1.49%
Independent N/A 0 0.00%
0 / 100
Steady 26,603 1.08%
Green Party N/A 0 0.00%
0 / 100
Steady 6,409 0.26%
Increase0.08
Libertarian Party N/A 0 0%
0 / 100
Steady 6,295 0.25%
Decrease0.13

Special elections

Various states held special elections for legislative districts throughout the year.

Delaware

Florida

Georgia

  • An April 18 special election for the Georgia Senate seat left vacated by Judson Hill when he decided to run for US Congress 6th district seat vacated by Tom Price who was appointed Health and Human Services Secretary. Democratic candidate Christine Triebsch and Republican Candidate Kay Kirkpatrick ran for the vacated Georgia State Senate seat, which was won by Kirkpatrick.

Louisiana

New Hampshire

New York

  • There was a special election in the heavily Republican New York Assembly District 9 on May 23, which was won by Democrat Christine Pellegrino 58–42. Trump had won the district with 60% of the vote.

Oklahoma

Washington

  • On November 7, several states held special elections. There was a special election to fill the Washington State Senate seat for the Washington's 45th legislative district. Since the State Senate was evenly split going into the election, the contest election determined the partisan balance of power in Washington. Democrat Manka Dhingra won a majority of votes in the first round of the election, but rules required the race to go to a second round regardless. In the second round, with over $9,000,000 spent on the election through campaign contributions and political action committee expenditures, with a small number of votes yet to be counted, Dhingra led by over a 10% margin. Anticipating the Dhingra victory, Democratic Senate Minority Leader Sharon Nelson described a comprehensive agenda for the 60-day legislative session beginning in January that included voting rights reform and campaign-finance disclosure revision, as well as women's reproductive health, clean energy and firearms safety measures. Dhingra won the second round.

See also


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