Election results, 2023: Results of elected officials seeking other offices
In 2023, 81 state legislators ran for a different office than the one to which they were elected, with 39, or 48%, successfully winning election to those positions. That was higher than the 34% success rate in 2021, the previous odd year-election cycle, and slightly higher than the yearly average success rate of 46% from 2018-2023.
Forty-nine percent of Republicans who sought election to other offices in 2023 won. This is equal to the average success rate of Republicans who sought other offices from 2018-2023.
Forty-eight percent of Democrats who sought election to other offices in 2023 won. This is higher than the average success rate of Democrats who sought other offices from 2018-2023 (44%).
No members of the U.S. House or Senate sought election to other offices in 2023.
Members of state legislatures
Eighty-one state legislators ran for other elected positions in 2023, with 39 of them, or 48%, successfully winning election to a new position. Twenty of these state legislators (25%) lost in the general election, while 22 (27%) were defeated in their party's primary.
See also
- United States Congress elections, 2023
- Election results, 2021: Results of elected officials seeking other offices
- State legislative elections, 2023
- Ballotpedia's Election Analysis Hub, 2023
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