Tag: retirements
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Lowest number of Maine state legislative retirements since 2016
There are 186 state legislative seats up for election in Maine in 2024. Across those, 38 incumbents (22 Democrats and 16 Republicans) did not file to run for re-election. That is less than the average number of retirements in Maine from rom 2010-2022 (55.1) and is is the fewest number of retiring incumbents since 2016,…
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Three states — Idaho, Illinois, and Pennsylvania — have fewest number of state legislative incumbents retiring since 2010
So far, in 2024, Ballotpedia has processed candidate filing information for congressional offices in 23 states. We also have data for 27 state legislative chambers across 14 states. We've looked at 2,614 total races so far — about 44% of the ~6,000 races we anticipate covering in 2024. Looking at retirements across the state legislatures,…