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State of Election Administration Legislation 2024 Year-End Report: Looking ahead
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December 12, 2024
By Ballotpedia staff
Looking ahead
All 50 states will hold legislative sessions in 2025, and many states will hold longer sessions in the odd year when they do not have legislative elections. States where legislatures did not convene this year, like Nevada and Texas, may be in focus next year. Virginia, a state that was active this year but has statewide elections in 2025, may see less activity.
There are no new trifectas heading into 2025 as a result of the November elections, but there will be two fewer. In Michigan and Minnesota, Democrats lost one chamber of the legislature each, and with it trifecta control of state government. No other state legislative chambers changed control as a result of the elections. This year, one of the most active states in terms of new election laws was Louisiana, which was the only new trifecta heading into the year.
Overall, most changes to the partisan composition of chambers after November’s elections were small, but veto-proof supermajority status did change in five states. Democrats lost supermajority status in New York and Vermont, while Republicans lost supermajority status in Montana and North Carolina and gained it in South Carolina. Lawmakers in two of these states, New York and North Carolina, have been active in lame-duck sessions, and governors in each have vetoed an election related bill since the election. North Carolina, along with Vermont, also lost its status as a state with a governor of one party and a veto-proof state legislative majority of the opposing party. Click here to read more about the results of 2024 state legislative elections.
Check out past versions of this report and Ballotpedia’s monthly election legislation updates here, and be on the lookout for news and analysis from Ballotpedia on state legislative activity in our highlighted topics and the emerging issues of 2025’s legislative sessions. Finally, make sure to check out our full suite of legislation trackers, including our AI Deepfake legislation tracker], which tracks bills related to artificially generated or manipulated content, and includes legislation addressing deepfakes in political campaign communications.
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About the authors
Joe Greaney is a staff writer on Ballotpedia's Marquee Team.
Ballotpedia Editor in Chief Geoff Pallay reviewed the report and provided feedback, as did Managing Editor Cory Eucalitto and Marquee Team Lead Janie Valentine.
See also
- Ballotpedia's Election Administration Legislation Tracker
- About Ballotpedia's Election Administration Legislation Tracker
- Voting laws in the United States
- Election Policy
