Talk:2022 United States state legislative elections

Coalition Color
Is there a reason that Opposition Party yellow/orange is being used for the shading for the bipartisan coalition instead of the standard purple for a coalition government? &mdash; Carter (Tcr25) (talk) 20:21, 28 November 2022 (UTC)


 * As far as I know, that's just the color that has been used for the coalition on the 2018 and 2020. I don't know if there's an official source for it. I believe orange is used on those pages to refer to the coalition Republicans, which may be why yellow is used for the coalition as a whole? This is definitely something we should resolve, though. OutlawRun (talk) 21:27, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Looking back at those and the Alaska ones from this cycle, I see:
 * 2018 Alaska House of Representatives election
 * No colors used to denote coalition
 * 2020 Alaska House of Representatives election {{legend|FFFF00|Coalition (only in infobox)}}{{legend|F08E4D|Coalition Republican hold (in infobox)}}{{legend|FFE4E1|Coalition Republican (in tables)}}
 * 2022 Alaska House of Representatives election {{legend|FFFF00|Coalition (throughout)}}{{legend|F08E4D|Coalition Republican hold (in infobox)}}{{legend|FFE4E1|Coalition Republican (in tables)}}
 * 2022 United States state legislative elections {{legend|FFE153|Opposition Party (US) (used here for Alaska coalition throughout)}}{{legend|d9b2d9|Coalition (standard template color; darker purple used here in map and key)}}
 * Concerns with using Opposition Party (US) color template, beyond it being an unconnected political party from the late 1850s, are that it's pretty close to the Libertarian Party color and the color used in 2020 and 2022 articles for the Alaskan Independence Party. (Although the standard template color for AIP is more of a purple-blue.) {{legend|FED105|Libertarian Party}}{{legend|gold|Alaskan Independence Party (used in 2020 and 2022)}}{{legend|B3B3FF|Alaskan Independence Party (standard template color)}} &mdash; Carter (Tcr25) (talk) 22:00, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
 * It looks like it was introduced with this edit by . Duke, can you illuminate this? &mdash; Carter (Tcr25) (talk) 22:17, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
 * The edit was a while ago but I remember using the Opposition Party color to match the individual House election articles, not knowing they had their own color already (I made the same mistake in the 2020 article). I wouldn't be opposed to using either yellow or purple in the article, although since a "bipartisan" coalition does entail both the Democratic and Republican parties I'd say purple would be the best choice. DukeOfDelTaco (talk) 22:36, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Sounds good. I'll switch things to use Party shading/Coalition purple then. &mdash; Carter (Tcr25) (talk) 22:54, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

Factual Inaccuracy
"This is the first midterm election since 1934 in which the party of the incumbent president did not lose any state legislative chambers to the opposition."

This is not true. The Republican Party won control of the Alaska House of Representatives. LordofChaos55 (talk) 15:04, 19 January 2023 (UTC)


 * No, they did not. The Alaska House went from a Democratic-led coalition to a Republican-led coalition. It was never under the complete control of the Democratic Party, and it is currently not under the complete control of the Republican Party. I don't know how exactly we should refer to this on the page (Coalition hold or what?), but whatever it is, it does not contradict the statement you quoted. OutlawRun (talk) 16:44, 19 January 2023 (UTC)