Legislature Trends & Analytics

Historical chamber control, seat trends, and supermajority analysis

D Chambers (2025)
R Chambers (2025)
Net Shift
Split Legislatures

Chamber Control Over Time

Number of chambers controlled by each party. Pre-2021 data excludes split-legislature states (where individual chamber control requires research).

Total Seats by Party

Aggregate number of D and R seats across all 99 chambers (seat-count data available from 2021).

Chamber Flips by Cycle

Chambers that changed party control between snapshots.

Veto-Override Supermajorities

Chambers where one party holds enough seats to override the governor's veto.

StateChamberControlSeatsThresholdMargin

Closest Margins of Control

The 15 chambers with the smallest margin above the majority threshold.

StateChamberControlDRMajorityMargin