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This week's question was, What was the last state other than Alaska to have a state legislative chamber organized according to a power-sharing coalition?
You answered: Hawaii.
The correct answer was New York
In Alaska, control of the state House of Representatives is split between parties. The Alaska House has been under some form of power-sharing agreement since 2017.
The New York Senate has been under a power-sharing agreement on three separate occasions—2009, 2013-2015, and, most recently, 2017-2018. In 2017, Republicans and the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC) established a coalition with a 39-24 majority over the Democrats and coalesced behind Republican John Flanagan, the incumbent majority leader and president pro tempore. On April 4, 2018, the IDC rejoined the mainline Democratic conference, but Republicans maintained control of the chamber because state Sen. Simcha Felder (D), who was not a member of the IDC, continued to caucus with the GOP and gave them 32 seats in the chamber. In the September 2018 Democratic primaries, progressives opposed to the IDC alliance with Republicans defeated six of the eight former IDC members, including Klein. In the November 2018 elections, Democrats retained all of the seats won by the IDC primary challengers and expanded their majority to 40-23, giving them full control of the state Senate for just the second time since 1964.
You can read more about minority and coalition control of state legislative chambers here.
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