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Today's State Legislators, Tomorrow's Congress Members
By The Numbers

535 Total number of members in Congress.   293 Total number of candidates for Congress who are current or former state legislators. 267 Number of U.S. House of Representatives candidates who are current or former state legislators. 28 Number of House candidates who are current state legislators. 26 Number of U.S. Senate candidates who are current or former state legislators. 17 Number of retiring U.S. representatives who are former state legislators. 7 Number of U.S. Senate candidates who are current state legislators. 6 Number of retiring U.S. senators who are former state legislators. 1 Number of candidates for president who is a former state legislator. Socialist Party nominee Walt Brown is a former Oregon state legislator.   Links above provide names and party affiliations of all candidates in that category.  Back to StateVote 2004