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Thursday, November 08, 2007

Legislatures: before and after

Danny Dougherty
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Three states put their entire legislatures up for election Tuesday (Nov. 6). Democrats flipped control of legislative chambers in Virginia and Mississippi on Election Day and made gains in four of the six chambers with seats on the ballot, including adding one seat to their majority in the New Jersey Senate although they lost two seats in the Assembly.

Louisiana legislators are also up for election this year, but those contests will not be decided until runoff races are held on Saturday, Nov. 17.

All results below are based on preliminary information from state elections offices.

  Pre-election control Post-election control
Mississippi Senate
Democrats +3 seats
Republicans -3 seats
  25 Democrats / 27 Republicans 28 Democrats / 24 Republicans
Mississippi House of Representatives
Democrats -1 seat
Republicans +1 seat
  75 Democrats / 47 Republicans 76 Democrats / 48 Republicans
New Jersey Senate
Democrats +1 seat
Republicans -1 seat
  22 Democrats / 18 Republicans 23 Democrats / 17 Republicans
New Jersey General Assembly
Democrats -2 seats
Republicans +2 seats
  50 Democrats / 30 Republicans 48 Democrats / 32 Republicans
Virginia Senate
Democrats +4 seats
Republicans -4 seats
  17 Democrats / 23 Republicans 21 Democrats / 19 Republicans
Virginia General Assembly
Democrats +4 seats
Republicans -3 seats
independents -1 seat
  40 Democrats / 57 Republicans /
3 independents
 44 Democrats / 54 Republicans /
2 independents


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