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Impact of term limits on state legislative elections in 2025

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Of the two state legislative chambers holding elections in 2025, no incumbents are subject to term limits.

There are 99 chambers throughout the country. In 31 legislative chambers across 16 states, state legislators are subject to term limits. In the United States, there are 1,973 state senate seats and 5,413 state house seats. Of the 1,973 senate seats, 609 seats (30.9%) are subject to term limits. Of the 5,413 house seats, 1,460 seats (27.0%) are subject to term limits. Of the total 7,386 state legislative seats, 2,069 (28.0%) are limited.

Year-to-year comparisons

The table below shows term-limited state legislators by year from 2010 to 2025. Between those years, 2,125 state legislators were term-limited. Republicans had 294 more term-limited legislators than Democrats.

  • Democratic legislators term-limited: 875
  • Republican legislators term-limited: 1,169
  • Nonpartisan legislators term-limited: 81
Term-limited state legislators by year
Year Democratic Party Dem. senators Republican Party Rep. senators Independent Nonpartisan sentators Democratic Party Dem. representatives Republican Party Rep. representatives Independent Nonpartisan representatives Total term-limited
2025 - - - - - - -
2024 27 37 13 39 63 0 179
2023 2 5 0 4 11 0 22
2022 28 47 11 58 108 0 252
2021 - - - - - - -
2020 21 33 6 61 89 1 211
2019 4 12 0 13 17 1 47
2018 28 62 6 58 115 2 271
2017 - - - - - - -
2016 29 26 12 84 102 0 253
2015 3 4 0 7 7 0 21
2014 22 24 17 73 87 0 223
2013 - - - - - - -
2012 35 40 8 87 85 0 255
2011 5 1 0 5 4 1 16
2010 54 66 1 128 124 2 375
Total 258 357 74 617 812 7 2,125


See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Nebraska senators are officially nonpartisan. Five Nebraska senators term-limited in 2018 were affiliated with the Republican Party, while the other was affiliated with the Democratic Party.
  2. ↑ Google Spreadsheet, "Post-election term limits results, 2018," accessed April 25, 2019
  3. ↑ Nebraska senators are officially nonpartisan. Five Nebraska senators term-limited in 2018 were affiliated with the Republican Party, while the other was affiliated with the Democratic Party. The Nebraska senators were counted as major party incumbents in the post-election results.
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