Analysis: Over the past 15 years, the number of state legislative bodies dominated by one party or the other has increased dramatically. And with that increase, there’s less need to reach across the aisle.
There’s an obvious reason for this pattern. Over the past 15 years, the number of state legislative bodies dominated by one party or the other has increased dramatically. And with that increase, there’s less need to reach across the aisle.compiled by the National Conference of State Legislatures assesses the composition of the lower and upper chambers in each state since 2009. Using that data, we can visualize the evolution of partisan power in states over the last 14 years.
. State labels are colored according to their 2020 presidential vote. States in the light-blue section are ones in which Democrats held majorities in each chamber that year. Those in the light-red section had twin Republican majorities.The first is that the states have increasingly aligned on the bottom-left to top-right diagonal — meaning that the majority a party enjoys in one chamber increasingly mirrors the majority in the other chamber.There are other interesting changes, too, of course.
In 2009, only 14 lower chambers and 17 upper chambers had such lopsided partisan dominance. Most of those were controlled by Democrats . In 2023, at least 30 states have such margins in either chamber. Most of them are controlled by Republicans.chambers have partisan supermajorities has also increased — again, disproportionately for Republicans.
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