Election results, 2025: State legislative veto-proof majorities
Neither of the two states that held state legislative and gubernatorial elections in 2025 — New Jersey and Virginia — had a veto-proof legislative majority and governor of the opposing party heading into the elections. New Jersey had a Democratic trifecta, meaning Democrats controlled both state legislative chambers and the governorship. Virginia Democrats controlled both state legislative chambers but Gov. Glenn Youngkin was a Republican. The two states with a veto-proof legislature and opposing party governor — Kansas and Kentucky — did not hold elections in 2025.
Moreover, because neither New Jersey nor Virginia held state Senate elections in 2025 and there were no supermajorities in those chambers heading into the elections, neither state could have switched to having a veto-proof state legislature and an opposing party governor as a result of the 2025 elections.
Status of veto-proof majorities following the 2025 elections
Neither of the two states that held elections in at least one legislative chamber had supermajorities before the election. Because neither state held senate elections in 2025, neither state could have obtained a legislative supermajority. The table below shows the veto-proof majority statuses of both states before and after the elections.
| Partisan breakdown of veto-proof majorities on the ballot | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | As of the 2025 elections | Net change | After the 2025 elections | |||
 Democratic |
0 | 0 | 0 | |||
 Republican |
0 | 0 | 0 | |||
 No veto-proof majority |
2 | 0 | 2 | |||
Across all 50 state legislatures, there were eight Democratic supermajorities, 19 Republican supermajorities, and 23 states without a supermajority before the elections. After the elections, there remained eight state legislatures with Democratic supermajorities, 19 with Republican supermajorities, and 23 did not have a supermajority. The table below shows the veto-proof majority statuses of all 50 states before and after the elections.
| Partisan breakdown of veto-proof majorities across all 50 states | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | As of the 2025 elections | Net change | After the 2025 elections | |||
| Democratic |
8 | 0 | 8 | |||
| Republican |
19 | 0 | 19 | |||
| No veto-proof majority |
23 | 0 | 23 | |||
The map below shows the veto-proof majority status across all 50 states after the 2025 elections.
Veto-proof majorities and opposing-party governors
Veto-proof majorities are most important when the other party controls the governorship. This creates more opportunities for legislatures to override gubernatorial vetoes. Heading into 2025, the 27 state legislatures where one party had a veto-proof majority in both chambers included two states where the governor was a member of a different political party than the veto-proof majority: Kansas and Kentucky. Neither state held elections in 2025.
No states had the potential to gain a legislative supermajority with an opposing party governor in 2025, because neither New Jersey nor Virginia held state senate elections or had a senate supermajority.
Summary of election outcomes
The following table shows the veto-proof majority status of the two states that held regular elections in 2025 before and after the elections.
| Veto-proof majority status by state | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State | Party of governor (2025) | Party of legislative majority | Pre-election veto-proof majority? | Post-election veto-proof majority? | ||
| New Jersey | Democratic |
Democratic |
No | No | ||
| Virginia | Democratic |
Democratic |
No | No | ||
See also
- Veto-proof state legislatures and opposing party governors in the 2025 elections
- Veto overrides in state legislatures
- State legislative elections, 2025
- Election results, 2025
- Election results, 2025: State legislatures
- Election results, 2025: Governors
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