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
PresidentGeorge 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.
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.
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abThe
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.
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abThe
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.