And with their hardball fund raising and campaigning for state seats that year, DeLay's operatives did in fact aid the election of a Republican majority.
All of the state House seats are up in 46 states, but only 17 states have all of their state Senate seats up for re-election.
As a matter of fact, a slew of seats are up for grabs in North Carolina, including state legislative seats and judgeships, as well as all 12 of the state's seats in the House of Representatives.
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More than 6, 000 state legislative seats of the nation's 7, 424 will be decided on November 3.
Once a Democratic stronghold, the state elected Republicans to 95 of 150 state House seats in November.
By-elections are taking place for 48 parliamentary and state-assembly seats on June 3rd.
Early results from the Election Commission of India indicated that center-left Congress was leading in races for 121 seats in the 224-member state assembly while the Hindu nationalist BJP, which currently holds power in the state, was poised to win 38 seats.
In the last parliamentary elections, it won 29 of the state's 42 seats.
Shrewd tinkering with the state's 53 seats (presuming it adds one to the present tally) could leave prominent Republicans battling for the same seat.
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The Tiger's rhetoric sounded tired, and the party's seats in state elections - despite continuing to rule the Mumbai municipality - diminished over the years.
The data collected by the decennial census determine the number of seats each state has in the U.S. House of Representatives and is also used to distribute billions in federal funds to local communities.
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No one knows what the impact of the new system will be in a presidential race, but in the 1998 elections for congressional seats and state offices one effect was to favour more moderate candidates.
In the 2010 mid-terms Democrats lost 63 House seats, six Senate seats, six governorships and a whopping 680 seats in state legislatures, giving Republicans bicameral legislative and executive control in 15 states and the biggest tally of state legislators since 1928.
The redistricting ruling may well have more political fallout than House apportionment: the redrawing of congressional districts takes place in every state, whereas only a handful of seats are at risk from the juggling of total state populations that takes place in the House.
All the 25 seats in the state are polling in the next phase.
It lost the governorship, the Senate race, all but two statewide offices and five seats in the state Assembly.
They require 5% of the vote to gain seats in the state legislature - exit polls suggested they had 10%.
Hispanics make up nearly a quarter of the state's population, but Hispanics hold only three of the state's 25 congressional seats.
There are also races for three open seats in the state Assembly coming up in May, so even more movement could occur.
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Mr Latham will be eyeing disgruntled sugar farmers from coalition-held constituencies in northern Queensland, a state where Labor must win seats to form a government.
Kennedy recently urged Massachusetts officials to change a law to allow for an immediate temporary replacement should a vacancy occur for one of his state's two Senate seats.
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This despite the fact that her Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), a regional party based in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, has only 17 seats in the parliament.
The last map the Republicans drew secured them a comfortable majority of 88 of the 150 seats in the state House in 2002, but only 76 in 2008.
Congress has 156 of the state assembly's 294 seats.
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Support for the capitalist and enterprise-friendly Free Democrat party shrunk to 2.7% of the vote, a 7% decline from the last election that cost the party their seats in the state parliament.
In 2006, Democrats took the seats of the state's Republican U.S. representatives and for the first time since 1874, Democrats had control of the governorship and both chambers of the state Legislature.
With a swing against it of over 16%, the biggest for any Australian government in 60 years, the party has been left with barely a quarter of the seats in the state's lower house.
Last year the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) won 9% of the vote in Saxony, giving it seats in a German state assembly for the first time since 1968.
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The star of such films as "Double Jeopardy" and "Kiss the Girls" is known for her liberal political views and she would have been running in a largely conservative state where Republicans hold both Senate seats and five of the six seats in the U.S. House.
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