2010 Election Note

Four states--Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey and Virginia--and three Senates--Kansas, New Mexico and South Carolina--do not have legislative elections in 2010. The Nebraska legislature is unicameral and nonpartisan. Live 2010 post-election results are based on unofficial results pending certification by their respective election officials.

Election Maps and Charts

Election Results

• Party Control of State Legislatures
• Legislatures: Party Control Switch
• Party Control of State Government 
• State Governor
• Post-Election Partisan Composition of State Legislatures - table

 Prior to the Election

• Pre-Election Party Control of State Legislatures 
• Pre-Election Party Control of State Legislatures - Table 
• Pre-Election Party Control of State Government 
• Pre-Election Party Control of Governor

2010 Pre-Election State Governors

This map shows the control of governors' offices before the Nov. 2, 2010, election. Democrats have the edge going into the election in the tally of governors—26-23—with one Independent. There are a record 37 races for governor this year. Because of term limits, retirements and primary defeats, there are 24 states guaranteed to have a new governor in January 2011. In addition, North Dakota Governor John Hoeven is running for an open U.S. Senate seat that he is heavily favored to win, which will force him to resign as governor. That will bring the number of guaranteed new governors to 25 in 2011. If just two of the 13 incumbent governors seeking re-election fail to win, that will tie the record for most rookie governors set in 1920 at 27.