Friday Trivia 5-03-2024

Each Friday, we run a quiz in the Daily Brew, our daily politics newsletter, on a topic we covered the previous week. Click here to subscribe, and we'll send you three stories each weekday morning that you won't find anywhere else. The trivia question below was featured in the Friday, May 3, edition.

This week's question was, What percentage of state legislative seats are open this year?

We’ve been busy crunching the numbers to get a sense of the level of competition in this year’s state legislative, state executive, and congressional primaries. We’ve released annual reports on primary competitiveness trends since 2010. In the Wednesday Brew, we looked specifically at state legislative incumbents and open seats trends going back to 2010 — and how this year’s primaries compare.

An open seat means an incumbent is not running for re-election.

Between 2010 and 2022, an average of 19% of state legislative seats were open each year. This average is more than the percentage of open state legislative seats in 2024.

What percentage of state legislative seats are open this year?

• 17%
• 18.9%
• 14.6%
• 9.3%

Click here to see last week's trivia question.