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The 2022 United States state legislative elections were held on November 8, 2022, for 88 state legislative chambers in 46 states.[1] Across the fifty states, approximately 56 percent of all upper house seats and 92 percent of all lower house seats were up for election. Additionally, six territorial chambers were up in four territories and the District of Columbia. These midterm elections coincided with other state and local elections, including gubernatorial elections in multiple states.
Prior to the elections, Democrats held 14 trifectas (control of the governor's office and legislative chambers), Republicans held 23 trifectas, and 13 states held a divided government. These were the first elections affected by the 2020 redistricting cycle, which reapportioned state legislatures based on data from the 2020 United States census. This is the first midterm election since 1934 in which the party of the incumbent president did not lose any state legislative chambers to the opposition.[2] Democrats won a trifecta in Michigan for the first time since 1984.
The Democrats flipped the Minnesota Senate, the Michigan Senate for the first time since 1984, and the Michigan House of Representatives from Republican control, and they also established a coalition government in the Alaska Senate. Meanwhile, the Alaska House of Representatives switched from a Democratic-led coalition to a Republican-led coalition. Further special elections on February 7, 2023, gave Democrats control of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.[3] Democrats had won control of the chamber in 2022, but vacancies prevented them from seating it until after the special elections.[4]
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- ^ "State legislative elections, 2022". Ballotpedia. Retrieved November 17, 2021.
- ^ McCammond, Alexi (November 11, 2022). "Democrats make quiet history with state-level gains". Retrieved November 13, 2022.
- ^ "Pennsylvania Democrats take back state House control with three special election wins". NBC News. February 8, 2023. Retrieved February 8, 2023.
- ^ Astor, Maggie (February 7, 2023). "3 Special Elections Will Determine Control of the Pennsylvania House". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 8, 2023.