2005 United States state legislative elections

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November 8, 2005

2006 →

2 legislative chambers
2 states

	Majority party	Minority party

Party	Republican	Democratic
Chambers before	51^[a]	47^[a]
Chambers after	51	47
Overall change

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

The 2005 United States state legislative elections were held on November 8, 2005. Two 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.^[1] Both chambers of the Northern Mariana Islands legislature was up.

Democrats maintained control of the New Jersey General Assembly and Republicans maintained control of the Virginia House of Delegates.^[2]^[3]

Summary table

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

Lower houses

State	Previous LH	Result	Party control
New Jersey	D 47-33	D 49-31	Democratic hold
Virginia	R 61-37-2	R 57-40-3	Republican hold

Territorial and federal district summaries

Upper houses

State	Previous UH	Result	Party control
Northern Mariana Islands	C 3-2-2-2	6-3	Coalition Takeover

Lower houses

State	Previous LH	Result	Party control
Northern Mariana Islands	C 9-7-1-1	11-7	Coalition Takeover

Notes

References

^ "State legislative elections, 2005". Ballotpedia. Retrieved February 7, 2023.
^ https://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/election-information-2005.shtml
^ "Election Results - Virginia Department of Elections".

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Summary table

State summaries

Lower houses

Territorial and federal district summaries

Upper houses

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See also

Notes

References