2014 United States state legislative elections

Elections to state legislatures were held in 46 U.S. states in 2014 with a total of 6,049 seats up for election (82 percent of the total number of state legislative seats in the United States). Six territorial chambers were up in four territories and the District of Columbia.

Republicans initially gained control of nine legislative chambers: both chambers of the Nevada Legislature (which they held simultaneously for the first time since 1931), the Minnesota House of Representatives, the New Hampshire House of Representatives, the New Mexico House of Representatives for the first time since 1955, the West Virginia House of Delegates, the Colorado Senate, the Maine Senate, and the New York Senate, which was previously under a Republican-led coalition. This increased the total number of Republican-controlled state houses from 58 to 67. The day after the election, Republicans, who achieved a 17–17 tie in the West Virginia Senate, gained control of that chamber as well thanks to the defection of State Senator Daniel Hall, thus increasing their total gains to ten, for a final total of 68 state houses won. This allowed Republicans win control of either chamber of the West Virginia legislature for the first time since 1933.

The election left the Republicans in control of the highest amount of state legislatures in the party's history since 1928, and it also left the Democratic Party in control of the smallest number of state legislatures since 1860.

Summary table
Regularly-scheduled elections were held in 87 of the 99 state legislative chambers in the United States; nationwide, regularly-scheduled elections were held for 6,064 of the 7,383 legislative seats. Most legislative chambers held elections for all seats, but some legislative chambers that use staggered elections held elections for only a portion of the total seats in the chamber. The chambers that were not up for election either hold regularly-scheduled elections in odd-numbered years, or have four-year terms and hold all regularly-scheduled elections in presidential election years.

Note that this table only covers regularly-scheduled elections; additional special elections took place concurrently with these regularly-scheduled elections.

Electoral predictions
Predictors considered Democrats to be vulnerable to significant losses in legislative control, owing to the six-year itch of the presidency of Democrat Barack Obama. Most of the legislative chambers considered competitive were held by Democrats.

Ratings are designated as follows:


 * " Tossup ": Competitive, no advantage
 * " Lean ": Competitive, slight advantage
 * " Likely ": Not competitive, but opposition could make significant gains
 * " Safe ": Not competitive at all

Alabama
All of the seats of the Alabama Legislature were up for election. Republicans maintained control of both state legislative chambers.

Alaska
All of the seats of the Alaska House of Representatives and half of the Alaska Senate were up for election. Republicans maintained control of both state legislative chambers.

Arizona
All of the seats of the Arizona Legislature were up for election. Republicans maintained control of both state legislative chambers.

Arkansas
All of the seats of the Arkansas House of Representatives and half of the Arkansas Senate were up for election. Republicans maintained control of both state legislative chambers.

California
All of the seats of the California House of Representatives and half of the California Senate were up for election. Democrats maintained control of both state legislative chambers.

Colorado
All of the seats of the Colorado House of Representatives and half of the Colorado Senate were up for election. Republicans won control of the Senate and Democrats maintained control of the House of Representatives.

Connecticut
All of the seats of the Connecticut Legislature were up for election. Democrats maintained control of both state legislative chambers.

Delaware
All of the seats of the Delaware House of Representatives and half of the Delaware Senate were up for election. Democrats maintained control of both state legislative chambers.

Florida
All of the seats of the Florida House of Representatives and half of the Florida Senate were up for election. Republicans maintained control of both state legislative chambers.

Georgia
All of the seats of the Georgia Legislature were up for election. Republicans maintained control of both state legislative chambers.

Hawaii
All of the seats of the Hawaii House of Representatives and half of the Hawaii Senate were up for election. Democrats maintained control of both state legislative chambers.

Idaho
All of the seats of the Idaho Legislature were up for election. Republicans maintained control of both state legislative chambers.

Illinois
All of the seats of the Illinois House of Representatives and one third of the Illinois Senate were up for election. Democrats maintained control of both state legislative chambers.

Indiana
All of the seats of the Indiana House of Representatives and half of the Indiana Senate were up for election. Republicans maintained control of both state legislative chambers.

Iowa
All of the seats of the Iowa House of Representatives and half of the Iowa Senate were up for election. Republicans maintained control of the House of Representatives and Democrats maintained control of the Senate.

Kansas
All of the seats of the Kansas House of Representatives. Republicans maintained control of both state legislative chambers.

Kentucky
All of the seats of the Kentucky House of Representatives and half of the Kentucky Senate were up for election. Republicans maintained control of the Senate and Democrats maintained control of the House of Representatives.

Maine
All of the seats of the Maine Legislature were up for election. Republicans won control of the Senate and Democrats maintained control of the House of Representatives.

Maryland
All of the seats of the Maryland Legislature were up for election. Democrats maintained control of both state legislative chambers.

Massachusetts
All of the seats of the Massachusetts Legislature were up for election. Democrats maintained control of both state legislative chambers.

Michigan
All of the seats of the Michigan Legislature were up for election. Republicans maintained control of both state legislative chambers.

Minnesota
All of the seats of the Minnesota House of Representatives were up for election. Republicans won control of the House of Representatives.

Missouri
All of the seats of the Missouri House of Representatives and half of the Missouri Senate were up for election. Republicans maintained control of both state legislative chambers.

Montana
All of the seats of the Montana House of Representatives and half of the Montana Senate were up for election. Republicans maintained control of both state legislative chambers.

Nebraska
Nebraska is the only U.S. state with a unicameral legislature; half of the seats of the Nebraska Legislature were up for election in 2014. Nebraska is also unique in that its legislature is officially non-partisan and holds non-partisan elections, although the Democratic and Republican parties each endorse legislative candidates. Republicans maintained control.

Nevada
All of the seats of the Nevada House of Representatives and half of the Nevada Senate were up for election. Republicans won control of both state legislative chambers.

New Hampshire
All of the seats of the New Hampshire House of Representatives and half of the New Hampshire Senate were up for election. Republicans maintained control of the Senate and won control of the House of Representatives.

New Mexico
All of the seats of the New Mexico House of Representatives. Republicans won control of the chamber.

New York
All of the seats of the New York Legislature were up for election. Republicans replaced a Republican-led coalition in the Senate, and Democrats maintained control of the Assembly.

North Carolina
All of the seats of the North Carolina House of Representatives and half of the North Carolina Senate were up for election. Republicans maintained control of both state legislative chambers.

North Dakota
All of the seats of the North Dakota House of Representatives and half of the North Dakota Senate were up for election. Republicans maintained control of both state legislative chambers.

Ohio
All of the seats of the Ohio House of Representatives and half of the Ohio Senate were up for election. Republicans maintained control of both state legislative chambers.

Oklahoma
All of the seats of the Oklahoma House of Representatives and half of the Oklahoma Senate were up for election. Republicans maintained control of both state legislative chambers.

Oregon
All of the seats of the Oregon House of Representatives and half of the Oregon Senate were up for election. Democrats maintained control of both state legislative chambers.

Pennsylvania
All of the seats of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and half of the Pennsylvania Senate were up for election. Republicans maintained control of both state legislative chambers.

Rhode Island
All of the seats of the Rhode Island Legislature were up for election. Democrats maintained control of both state legislative chambers.

South Carolina
All of the seats of the South Carolina House of Representatives were up for election. Republicans maintained control of both state legislative chambers.

South Dakota
All of the seats of the South Dakota Legislature were up for election. Republicans maintained control of both state legislative chambers.

Tennessee
All of the seats of the Tennessee House of Representatives and half of the Tennessee Senate were up for election. Republicans maintained control of both state legislative chambers.

Texas
All of the seats of the Texas House of Representatives and half of the Texas Senate were up for election. Republicans maintained control of both state legislative chambers.

Utah
All of the seats of the Utah House of Representatives and half of the Utah Senate were up for election. Republicans maintained control of both state legislative chambers.

Vermont
All of the seats of the Vermont Legislature were up for election. Democrats maintained control of both state legislative chambers.

Washington
All of the seats of the Washington House of Representatives and half of the Washington Senate were up for election. Republicans maintained coalition control of the Senate and Democrats maintained control of the House of Representatives.

West Virginia
All of the seats of the West Virginia House of Delegates and half of the West Virginia Senate were up for election. Republicans initially won control of the House of Delegates and tied the Senate, but the defection of Democratic senator Daniel Hall the day after the election gave Republicans control of the chamber.

Wisconsin
All of the seats of the Wisconsin Assembly and half of the Wisconsin Senate were up for election. Republicans maintained control of both state legislative chambers.

Wyoming
All of the seats of the Wyoming House of Representatives and half of the Wyoming Senate were up for election. Republicans maintained control of both state legislative chambers.

American Samoa
All of the seats of the American Samoa Senate and the American Samoa House of Representatives were up for election. Members of the Senate serve four-year terms, while members of the House of Representatives serve two-year terms. Gubernatorial and legislative elections are conducted on a nonpartisan basis in American Samoa.