Republican incumbents lost primaries at twice the rate of Democrats in this year’s state legislative elections

Republican state legislators lost re-election in this year’s primaries at twice the rate of Democrats. Of the 2,737 Republicans who ran for re-election, 126 (4.6%) lost primaries. Of the 2,314 Democrats who ran, 54 (2.3%) did. The partisan split follows a pattern we reported in the June 22 Daily Brew that incumbents had more primary […]