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Map based on last Senate election in each state as of 2024. Starting with the 2000 United States presidential election, the terms "red state" and "blue state" have referred to US states whose voters vote predominantly for one party—the Republican Party in red states and the Democratic Party in blue states—in presidential and other statewide elections.
Political party strength in U.S. states is the level of representation of the various political parties in the United States in each statewide elective office providing legislators to the state and to the U.S. Congress and electing the executives at the state (U.S. state governor) and national (U.S. President) level.
The United States also has one federal district and five non-state territories with local legislative branches, which are listed below. Among the states, the Nebraska Legislature is the only state with a unicameral body. However, three other jurisdictions – the District of Columbia, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands – also have unicameral ...
In 2021, the Republican-controlled state legislature in Alabama drew a congressional map that had six majority-white seats and one majority-Black seat — despite it being possible to draw a map ...
The Kentucky Supreme Court could soon decide whether a map drawn by the state’s Republican-controlled legislature amounts to what Democrats assert is an “extreme partisan” gerrymander in ...
Map drawers propose flipping one of Buncombe's three N.C. House districts, which all lean Democratic, to a district favoring a Republican candidate. GOP maps could give Republicans foothold in all ...
As of January 25, 2025, there are 27 states with Republican governors and 23 states with Democratic governors. Both Republicans and Democrats control 2 territorial governorships. Jenniffer González-Colón of Puerto Rico is a member of the New Progressive Party, although she is also affiliated with the Republican Party. [1]
[51] [52] This decision was overturned in April 2023 by a new ruling in the same case, after the state supreme court shifted from Democratic to Republican control. [53] A federal case over the same maps is being heard as Moore v. Harper, under the independent state legislature theory. On December 22, 2023, the Wisconsin Supreme Court decided ...