54.07% of state legislatures are Republican, 44.33% Democratic in August 2022

ballotpedia.org ^ | 9/19/22 | Maddie Sinclair Johnson

[cotton1706]

At the end of August 2022, 54.07% of all state legislators in the United States are Republicans while 44.33% are Democrats. There are 7,383 state legislative seats in the country.

Republicans control 62 chambers, while Democrats hold 36. The Alaska House of Representatives is the only chamber organized under a multipartisan, power-sharing coalition.

Democrats hold 864 state Senate seats and 2,409 state House seats, gaining one Senate seat and losing two House seats since last month. Republicans hold 1,092 state Senate seats and 2,900 state House seats, losing one Senate seat and four House seats since last month.

Independent or third-party legislators hold 40 seats across 19 different states, including 33 state House seats and seven state Senate seats. There are 69 vacant state House seats and nine vacant state Senate seats across 32 different states.

Compared to August 2021, Democrats have gained one state Senate seat (863 v. 864) and lost 30 state House seats (2,439 v. 2,409). Republicans have gained one state Senate seat (1,091 v. 1,092) and lost 15 state House seats (2,915 v. 2,900).

[cotton1706]

This is a good benchmark to measure the progress in the midterms.

When figures are finalized after November, I'll post the results.

Republicans now hold 54% of state legislators and 63% of state legislative chambers. Also, 49% of the US House and 50% of the US Senate, and 56% of state governors.

[Sacajaweau]

It’s all about getting out the vote...and forget mail in unless absolutely necessary...go to your polling place!!

[C210N]

A better indicator would be the %-age of Uniparty versus Patriots.

[Persevero]

It’s a good start!!

[jacknhoo]

As we learned in too many states in 2020 that just because they have R’s by their name’s doesn’t mean they’re not assistant Democrats/UniParty.

I think we’ve corrected some of those, I hope it’s enough to overcome the traitors in our GOP.

[SaxxonWoods]

Here’s the one that matters:

95% don’t care anything about the citizens.

[Lee Enfield]

The other 5% were sleeping.

[Safrguns]

Yeah... we saw how much difference that made on Nov 3rd 2020.

6 out of 7 of those election fraud states were Republican dominated.

[kiryandil]

Two "Republican" legislatures that refused to hold a legislative show-and-tell on 2000 Mules are in bed with the Democrats of their respective states.

That would be Michigan and Pennsylvania.

[jacknhoo]

My state of Georgia is an embarrassment.

[Redmen4ever]

The report of the death of the Republican Party is premature.

With any luck, we’ll soon control the U.S. House and Senate (as well as expand our control of state legislators, state legislative chambers and Governors).

We also need to work hard to take over the school boards of the country, even as we open up parental choice in education.

I don’t know if we can save this country from its moral and economic decline. The elites and the big corporations are formidable opponents. But, we must give it an honest try.

[Jim Noble]

And what did those Republican legislators in Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia do with their majorities in November and December 2020?

This ridiculous GOP simping has to stop.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

So long after the Reynolds v. Sims Supreme Court decision and most states still have two legislative bodies.

How stupid are we?

[cotton1706]

“most states still have two legislative bodies.
How stupid are we?”

What do you mean by that? Bicameral legislatures secure liberty.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

It used to be that at the state level one legislative body (usually called the senate) was based on counties or other regional entities and one legislative body (usually called the assembly) was based on population. This allowed, for example, a farming county to have the same level of representation as an urban region in one legislative body.

However, the Supreme Court, in its much less than infinite wisdom in the Reynolds case decided that although it was OK to have a senate at the national level, all legislative bodies at the state level had to be based on population.

So now every state senate and assembly is based on districts divided up into equal population. So there is no body which gives relatively sparse rural counties the same say as relatively dense urban counties.

It makes no sense to me to have two bodies that are both based on the same districting; the only difference being that maybe one body has fewer members than the other and represent larger districts.

It would be better to create one assembly with more members so that each district could be smaller and more representative of the people in that district.

Even better would be for the Supremes to overturn Reynolds so that farmers and ranchers have the same say in one body as the cityfolk who normally have worse ideas about what laws to pass.

[cotton1706]

I agree with you that states senates should represent the towns or counties as they used to.

But the idea of a unicameral assembly is a mistake, as history has shown.

I republished John Adams’ three volume A Defence of the Constitutions and he tackles that very subject (though only the first volume is really necessary to read).

Also, Forrest MacDonald addressed the different representation issue in Novus Ordo Seclorum. So even though the Supreme Court altered the representation dynamic, the principle is the same. Two separate bodies of different sizes representing different constituencies of the same people.

[central_va]

Republicans control 62 chambers, while Democrats hold 36

Lool at that. Conservatives against repealing the 17th amendment are idiots.