2021 United States state legislative elections

Regularly scheduled elections were held in 3 of the 99 state legislative chambers in the United States. Nationwide, regularly scheduled elections were held for 220 of the 7,383 legislative seats. This table only covers regularly scheduled elections; additional special elections took place concurrently with these regularly scheduled elections. ==Electoral predictions==

Most election predictors use: • "Tossup": No advantage • "Tilt": Advantage that is not quite as strong as "lean" • "Lean": Slight advantage • "Likely": Significant, but surmountable, advantage • "Safe" or "Solid": Near-certain chance of victory == State summaries ==

New Jersey All seats of the New Jersey Senate and the New Jersey General Assembly were up for election. One Senator and two Assembly members were elected to two-year terms in each district. Democrats retained majority control in both chambers, but they lost seats in each as well, despite their candidates generally outrunning governor Phil Murphy in the concurrent gubernatorial election. Most stunningly, Senate president Stephen Sweeney lost re-election to a political newcomer who spent less than $2,500 on his campaign. Virginia All seats of the Virginia House of Delegates are up for election; the Virginia Senate did not hold regularly-scheduled elections in 2021. Delegates are elected to two-year terms in single-member districts. Democrats had recently gained control of the House in 2019; however, they lost their majority to the Republicans in this election. == Special elections ==

Various states held special elections for legislative districts throughout the year. Neither party made net gains, with Democrats picking up 3 seats in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, New Hampshire House of Representatives, and Maine House of Representatives, while Republicans picked up 3 seats in the Connecticut State Senate, Iowa House of Representatives, and Texas House of Representatives. Alabama California Connecticut Georgia Iowa Kentucky Louisiana Maine Massachusetts Michigan Mississippi Missouri New Hampshire New York Oklahoma Pennsylvania Rhode Island Tennessee Texas Virginia Wisconsin == Notes ==