Talk:List of United States state legislatures

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Tennessee is purple on the map, which is incorrect. It should be marked red as the legislature there is Republican controlled. I'd change it myself, but I can't figure out the editing functions over at Wikipedia Commons (my own stupidity). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mensch1066 (talk • contribs) 21:55, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Note: Virginia is red on the map, but should be purple because the Democrats took control of the Virginia Senate, as is correctly noted in the table. Additionally, Mississippi should go from purple to blue.

-- User:stomv

Note: Tennesee is shown as purple on the map when according to the table, it should be red.

Russellane (talk) 05:32, 14 November 2009 (UTC) User: russellane

The above is incorrect, see Peer_review/Archive_1.

What needs to be done to make this table about 2/3 of its current width? RickK 23:23, 22 May 2004 (UTC)

You might want to try one of the following:

-- User:Docu

Legislative requirement
The first sentence is "All United States states are required to possess a legislative branch." but I believe this to be inaccurate. The Federal government is the only institution I can think of that could possibly impose such a requirement on all the States, and I think that would have to be stipulated in the Constitution. I've just re-read and searched the Constitution, and found nothing that imposes such a requirement, notwithstanding that many references throughout the document refer to the legislature of the States, assuming that each State has a legislature. So, I'm going to change the sentence to: "Each State in the United States has a legislative branch as part of its form of civil government." JD Lambert(T 18:12, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

New infos!
http://www.ncsl.org/statevote/partycomptable2009print.htm has all the updates. 68.39.174.238 (talk) 03:21, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Keep this page
I find this page to be very useful. I suggest it not be merged. 24.3.249.174 (talk) 18:20, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Agreed Papercrab (talk) 06:30, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

PR?
Given that the title of the page is "state legislatures", do PR, NMI, DC, etc. belong here? 76.117.247.55 (talk) 01:40, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Idea is definitely understood, though I will say that there would not be enough content for non-state legislatures to merit its own page. Essentially, even if these pages were created split, they would easily qualify for a merge in that there is fair amounts of overlap and a low amount of text in the non-state legislatures. Moreover, there seems to be a precedent that if something applies to the District and territories, they can be addressed in the same article, so long as they are separated.--Jpatch (talk) 17:46, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Map key colors
In spite of the fact that only a few "states" have other parties represented in the table above the "map" key (techn. Table key.) could we choose colors that are unique to each party (minus Democrat affiliate parties)?

Number of legislators is 12000+?
Beneath the table enumerating the state legislatures and their members, there is a small statement asserting that the number of total state representatives is a 12,793 people. That is difficult enough to believe int he first place, but the data that statement cites nowhere mentions such a figure, and in fact lists the total number of seats for all state legislatures as 7,382. This also corresponds with other data I've in regards to this topic. Where did this number of over 12,000 representatives come from, and on what basis is it believed to be accurate? Malithion (talk) 05:55, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Size of legislatures (and suggestion to make sortable)
This site has a list of size of the legislatures. That would be useful in this table particularly since some of the bigger legislatures are now considering shrinking. Unfortunately the format of the table is not conducive to sorting (the top level heading screws things up). I would favor changing the format so it is sortable.Americasroof (talk) 15:21, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Map
Why did the map disappear? (And why, when it was removed from this page, did the map key remain behind?) The map was a very useful feature of this page. Someone should find the old map file and update it and put it back (I can't because I don't have the ability to edit the SVG files we use for maps). In the mean time, I have deleted the "Map Key" since it's keying information to a nonexistent map. Bojangles04 (talk) 16:57, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:List of United States state prisons which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 14:15, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Statistics Section
The Statistics Section needs colors that more clearly contrast the partisan control of the individual legislative bodies (the current colors are very faint). Blue-er and Red-er backgrounds would make the matrix easier to visually interpret.

I recommend the colors used in the Cook Partisan Voting Index article.

72.82.162.247 (talk) 18:34, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Maps
The two maps at the top of this page have outdated colours that do not reflect 2018 elections.

Does anyone know how to update them? I can’t find where to edit them Mikemikem (talk) 05:17, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

Please take a closer look to the maps. For instance, as you mention, Wisconsin and Michigan have a Democratic governor, which is indeed reflected on the relevant map, where their colors have been changed from red (Republican trifecta) to purple (split control, in this case a Republican legislature and Democratic governor). Maybe you have been looking at the first map, which shows legislatures only (which is still Republican in the case of Michigan and Wisconsin). The captions were a bit misleading, I had changed those. And even if the maps were outdated, they are very easy to update (with e.g. Inkscape or a text editor), and imho it's quite counterproductive to remove/add the map back and forth, a note with "needs updating" is more constructive (which we also do for outdated text, using Template:Update). SPQRobin (talk) 21:56, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

Libertarian Party
The table here lists 0 legislators for the Libertarian party in both upper and lower houses, but 1 in total. I have no idea about US state politics, but I guess there is mistake here to be fixed. Regards, --Metrophil (talk) 14:46, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

Split Legislatures
I don't think it's accurate to count Alaska as a "Split Legislature" since the Coalition Republicans have formed still gives them control of that Legislative body and thus full control of both of their bodies of Congress. Minnesota currently is the only state with an actual split Congress (R Senate and D House). I think it's misleading to include Alaska simply because of that, because it's a Double Standard to how Vermont is listed on this site as having two Democratic LEANING Senators even though they're Independents. The Coalition in Alaska is still a Conservative one and willingly gave Republicans control. Elyon127 (talk) 05:29, 4 July 2021 (UTC)

Minnesota
The coding for the state House of Representatives is [sort|429|D 70–64]. If the Democrats hold 70 seats out of 134, which works out at 0.522388, should that give a figure of 522 rather than 429? Alekksandr (talk) 21:40, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

Vacancies
Does anyone have thoughts on potentially not including vacancies in the party strength column? Then the only updates between general elections would be for more permanent changes in partisan makeup (party switches, election flips, etc.), which are relatively rare so there would be many fewer back-and-forth edits needed. It doesn't seem like the page is normally edited often enough to keep up with the churn anyways. Noahp2 (talk) 03:39, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

Updates needed to reflect 2023 election changes
Virginia in particular 99.11.250.209 (talk) 05:24, 8 November 2023 (UTC)