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(Top) 1 Summary table 2 State summaries 2.1 Upper houses 2.2 Lower houses 3 Territorial and federal district summaries 3.1 Upper houses 3.2 Lower houses 4 Notes 5 References

2001 United States state legislative elections

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November 6, 2001

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4 legislative chambers in 2 states

	Majority party	Minority party	Third party

Party	Republican	Democratic	Coalition
Chambers before	51^[a]	45^[a]	1^[c]
Chambers after	49^[b]	47	1^[c]
Overall change	2	2

Map of upper house elections:
     Republicans retained control
     Split body formed
     No regularly-scheduled elections

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

The 2001 United States state legislative elections were held on November 6, 2001, during President George W. Bush's first term in office. Elections were held for four legislative chambers in two states, simultaneous to those states' gubernatorial elections.^[1] Both chambers of the Northern Mariana Islands legislature were up as well.

These were the first elections affected by the 2000 redistricting cycle, which reapportioned state legislatures based on data from the 2000 United States census.

Republicans maintained control of both houses of the Virginia General Assembly, while Democrats won control of the New Jersey General Assembly, and evenly split the State Senate.^[2] Democrats additionally won control of the Washington House of Representatives through special elections.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Summary table[edit]

Regularly-scheduled elections were held in 4 of the 99 state legislative chambers in the United States. Nationwide, regularly-scheduled elections were held for 260 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	40	40	100	2/4^[d]	80	80	100	2
Virginia	40	40	100	4	100	100	100	2

State summaries[edit]

Upper houses[edit]

State	Previous UH	Result	Party control
New Jersey	R 24-16	20-20	Split body formed
Virginia	R 21-19	R 21-19	Republican Hold

Lower houses[edit]

State	Previous LH	Result	Party control
New Jersey	R 45-35	D 44-36	Democratic Takeover
Virginia	R 52-47-1	R 64-34-2	Republican hold

Territorial and federal district summaries[edit]

Upper houses[edit]

State	Previous UH	Result	Party control
Northern Mariana Islands	R 6-2-1	R 4-3-1-1	Republican Hold

Lower houses[edit]

State	Previous LH	Result	Party control
Northern Mariana Islands	R 11-6-1	R 16-1-1	Republican hold

Notes[edit]

^ ^a ^b The Washington House of Representatives and Maine Senate were tied, and they were controlled by a power-sharing agreement between Democrats and Republicans. They are not counted towards either total here.

^ The New Jersey Senate became tied. The Maine Senate remained tied, and they were controlled by a power-sharing agreement between Democrats and Republicans. They are not counted towards either total here.

^ ^a ^b The Arizona Senate was controlled by a coalition of Democrats and Republicans. The minority caucus consists of Republicans who were not part of the majority coalition.

^ The upper houses of Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Texas use a 2-4-4 term length system.

References[edit]

^ "State legislative elections, 2002". Ballotpedia.

^ "Democrats Grab Control of Two Chambers--Earn Tie in a Third. (On First Reading)". State Legislatures. 27 (10): 7. December 2001 – via Gale General OneFile.

^ admin (2001-10-22). "House race could end Washington's legislative gridlock • Daily Journal of Commerce". Daily Journal of Commerce. Retrieved 2023-03-03.

^ Neurath, Peter (September 21, 2001). "Control of House still teeters in the balance". Puget Sound Business Journal. 22 (20): 7 – via Gale Business: Insights.

^ "Democrats Cut Into Republican Control Of State Legislatures". Congress Daily AM. The Atlantic Monthly Group LLC. November 9, 2001 – via Gale General OneFile.

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Other legislatures	District of Columbia American Samoa (H, S) Guam Northern Mariana Islands (H, S) Puerto Rico (H, S) U.S. Virgin Islands
Legislative elections	2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
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