How Many Years Does a House Representative Serve
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The length of terms of country representatives in the 49 American lower chambers is either two years or four years.
Representatives in five states (Alabama, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi and North Dakota) accept a four-twelvemonth term. Representatives in 44 states have a two-year term.
In contrast, term lengths of country senators are more often than not longer. Country senators in simply 12 states serve 2-year terms. Thirty states take four-year terms for state senators. In the remaining eight states, senators serve one two-twelvemonth term and two four-yr terms every x years in the ii-4-iv term system.
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- Encounter also: Length of terms of land senators
Length of terms
In the map below, the five bluish states represent the lower chambers with four-year terms: Alabama, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi and Northward Dakota. The green states represent those with two-year terms.
| Name of lower chamber | # of representatives | Length of term |
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| Alabama Firm of Representatives | 105 | iv |
| Alaska Firm of Representatives | 40 | ii |
| Arizona Firm of Representatives | threescore | 2 |
| Arkansas House of Representatives | 100 | 2 |
| California State Assembly | 80 | 2 |
| Colorado Business firm of Representatives | 65 | 2 |
| Connecticut Business firm of Representatives | 151 | 2 |
| Delaware House of Representatives | 41 | two |
| Florida House of Representatives | 120 | 2 |
| Georgia House of Representatives | 180 | 2 |
| Hawaii House of Representatives | 51 | ii |
| Idaho Business firm of Representatives | 70 | 2 |
| Illinois House of Representatives | 118 | 2 |
| Indiana House of Representatives | 100 | two |
| Iowa House of Representatives | 100 | 2 |
| Kansas House of Representatives | 125 | two |
| Kentucky House of Representatives | 100 | two |
| Louisiana House of Representatives | 105 | 4 |
| Maine House of Representatives | 151 | two |
| Maryland House of Delegates | 141 | four |
| Massachusetts Firm of Representatives | 160 | 2 |
| Michigan Firm of Representatives | 110 | two |
| Minnesota Business firm of Representatives | 134 | 2 |
| Mississippi Business firm of Representatives | 122 | 4 |
| Missouri Firm of Representatives | 163 | 2 |
| Montana Firm of Representatives | 100 | ii |
| Nevada State Associates | 42 | two |
| New Hampshire House of Representatives | 400 | 2 |
| New Jersey General Associates | 80 | 2 |
| New United mexican states Business firm of Representatives | 70 | 2 |
| New York Country Assembly | 150 | ii |
| N Carolina House of Representatives | 120 | 2 |
| North Dakota Business firm of Representatives | 94 | four |
| Ohio Business firm of Representatives | 99 | 2 |
| Oklahoma Business firm of Representatives | 101 | 2 |
| Oregon House of Representatives | 60 | 2 |
| Pennsylvania House of Representatives | 203 | 2 |
| Rhode Island Firm of Representatives | 75 | 2 |
| Due south Carolina House of Representatives | 124 | 2 |
| Due south Dakota Firm of Representatives | lxx | 2 |
| Tennessee House of Representatives | 99 | two |
| Texas Business firm of Representatives | 150 | ii |
| Utah Firm of Representatives | 75 | 2 |
| Vermont House of Representatives | 150 | 2 |
| Virginia House of Delegates | 100 | 2 |
| Washington State House of Representatives | 98 | 2 |
| West Virginia House of Delegates | 100 | 2 |
| Wisconsin State Assembly | 99 | 2 |
| Wyoming Business firm of Representatives | 60 | 2 |
Land legislatures with term limits
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- See as well: Country legislatures with term limits
In xv country legislatures, state legislators are subject field to term limits. Voters in six additional states voted to accept term limits, only to take those votes nullified. In two cases, the state legislature voted to nullify the limits imposed past voters, while in four other states, courts nullified the voter-imposed limits, primarily for technical reasons.
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Lifetime versus consecutive
Legislative term limits can be either lifetime or sequent. In the ten states where the limits are consecutive, once a state legislator has served the maximum number of terms in office, he or she, if eligible, tin can run for office for the land'due south other legislative chamber, or leave the legislature. These states are Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Louisiana, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, and Southward Dakota. Afterwards a flow of time no longer in function in a particular legislative sleeping room, still, the legislator is immune to run once again for office in that legislative chamber. The period of fourth dimension that a legislator must be out of office before beingness able to run once more is usually two years.
In 5 of the xv states with limits on country legislators, the limit is a lifetime limit. These states are California, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, and Oklahoma. In these states, in one case a legislator has served the maximum allowable number of terms in a detail legislative bedchamber, they may never once again run for or hold office in that particular sleeping room.[1]
See also
- Length of terms of state senators
- Land legislatures with term limits
- State legislatures
External links
- Search Google News for this topic
- National Conference of Land Legislatures
Footnotes
- ↑ National Conference of State Legislatures, "Chart of states with term limits," accessed January 22, 2016
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