The May issue looks at the role of money in elections, the need to upgrade the electric grid, the role of legislative staff, state support of long-term health services and much more.
Current Issue
You often hear the phrases “split control” or “divided government.” These terms relate to the party control of state legislatures or state government, which may change with each election.
Current and historic party control of state legislatures and government can be accessed below.
For consistency, the historic charts show the party control as of January in each year. (If you are looking for election results visit this page: 2017 Results for Legislative Partisan Composition | Post-Election)
To use NCSL’s new partisan composition tool, click on the image below. A pop-up window will appear which you can use to view and analyze data from 1997 until today. To see partisan composition data for any year from 1997-2018, use the “Year” dropdown on the top right side of the page.
To see partisan composition data from only one state, or a group of states, use the “State” dropdown on the top left side of the page.
(Partisan control in January 2018)
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Popular Democratic Party
(Historic charts show the party control as of January in each year.)
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