This week's question was, As of March 30, how many state legislative seats were vacant?

You answered: 144.
The correct answer was 53.

Ballotpedia’s March partisan count of the 7,383 state legislators found that 54.2% are Republicans and 44.4% are Democrats. Of the remainder, 0.6%—41—were held by independent or third party members, and 0.7%—53—were vacant.

Republicans have controlled a majority of state legislative seats since 2011, making this the party’s longest period of majority control at that level of government in more than 100 years. From 1921 to 2021, a majority of state legislators were Democrats for 74 years while Republicans were the majority for 26. Democrats’ longest period of majority control lasted 48 years from 1955 to 2003.

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