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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

2003 United States state legislative elections

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← 2002

November 7, 2003

2004 →

8 legislative chambers in 4 states

	Majority party	Minority party

Party	Republican	Democratic
Chambers before	54^[a]	42^[a]
Chambers after	54	43
Overall change		1

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

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

The 2003 United States state legislative elections were held on November 7, 2003, alongside other elections. Elections were held for 8 legislative chambers.^[1] Both chambers of the Northern Mariana Islands legislature was up.

Partisan change only occurred in one chamber, as Democrats won control of the New Jersey Senate, which was previously tied.^[2] However, Democrats did maintain control of the Mississippi Legislature, the Louisiana Legislature, and the New Jersey General Assembly. Republicans maintained control of the Virginia legislature, bringing a post-Civil War low for the Democratic Party.^[3]

Summary table[edit]

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
Louisiana	39	39	100	4	105	105	100	4
Mississippi	52	52	100	4	122	122	100	4
New Jersey	40	40	100	2/4^[b]	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
Louisiana	D 26-13	D 24-15	Democratic hold
Mississippi	D 34-18	D 34-18	Democratic hold
New Jersey	20-20	D 22-18	Democratic Takeover
Virginia	R 21-19	R 24-16	Republican hold

Lower houses[edit]

State	Previous LH	Result	Party control
Louisiana	D 74-31	D 66-37-2	Democratic hold
Mississippi	D 81-38-3	D 76-46	Democratic hold
New Jersey	D 44-36	D 47-33	Democratic Hold
Virginia	R 64-34-2	R 61-37-2	Republican Hold

Territorial and federal district summaries[edit]

Upper houses[edit]

State	Previous UH	Result	Party control
Northern Mariana Islands	R 4-3-1-1	C 3-2-2-2	Covenant Takeover

Lower houses[edit]

State	Previous LH	Result	Party control
Northern Mariana Islands	R 16-1-1	C 9-7-1-1	Covenant Takeover

Notes[edit]

^ ^a ^b The Oregon Senate, North Carolina House of Representatives, and New Jersey Senate were tied prior to the election. Thus, they are not included in this total.

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

References[edit]

^ https://ballotpedia.org/State_legislative_elections,_2003

^ "Official List, Candidate Returns for State Senate for November 2003 General Election" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 5, 2016. Retrieved December 3, 2015.

^ University of Virginia, Center for Politics. Virginia Votes 2003: Not much to remember, not much to forget. [1] Archived 2015-07-20 at the Wayback Machine

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