The Democratic ‘Wave’ was MUCH bigger than we knew…
Only 19% went the other way FROM Democrats TO Republicans…
This CANNOT be good for Republicans going into next years elections with Donald Trump probes and foreign policy/trade issues and Republicans doing much of nothing with a Democratic led US House led by Nancy Pelosi…
On November 6, 2018, elections were held for 6,073 state legislative seats across 87 of the nation’s 99 state legislative chambers. Five hundred and eight elections (8.3%) resulted in control of a seat changing to a new party. Of the 508 flips, 391 (77.0%) were Republican seats that flipped to Democrats and 93 (18.2%) were Democratic seats that flipped to Republicans.
Democrats gained a net 308 seats as a result of the elections, while Republicans lost a net 294 seats. Third party and independent legislators lost a net 14 seats. Control of six state legislative chambers flipped to Democrats, including both chambers of New Hampshire’s General Court, the state senates of Colorado, Maine, and New York, and the Minnesota House of Representatives.
At least one seat changed party control in every state that held regularly-scheduled state legislative elections. New Hampshire had 77 seats flip, the most of any state. Of those, 67 were Republican-held seats that flipped to Democrats, while seven were Democratic-held seats that flipped to Republicans. Republicans flipped two seats from third party or independent legislators and Democrats flipped one. New Hampshire was followed by Maine with 26 flips and Pennsylvania with 22 flips.
Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, and Oklahoma were the only states where Republicans had a net gain of seats. In every other state, Democrats gained more seats or the two parties gained the same number….