The document analyzes the political composition of state legislatures from 2006 to 2007. It hypothesizes that the Democratic party will continue to gain control of more state legislatures. The independent variable is political elections held every two years, and the dependent variable is which party controls each state legislature. The findings show that in 2006 the parties had almost equal control, but after the 2007 elections, the Democrats gained seats and controlled more state legislatures than Republicans.

1. Political Composition of State Legislatures By: Erick Harris

4. Casual Model and Rationale Political Elections State Legislatures Political Elections Bivariate State Legislatures Political Control Multivariate Elections have explicit results as you can tell by the above information. Political elections effect state legislatures directly by political control. That political control determines which direction the state legislature will go for that legislative session.