In 2024, 180 state legislators are facing term limits. Here’s everything you need to know about which states will be most impacted

By Stacker Nagel Photography // Shutterstock (Stacker) – Of the 85 state legislative chambers holding elections in 2024, 22 of them—12 senate chambers and 10 house chambers—include incumbents who are unable to run for re-election due to term limits. In those 22 chambers, term limits affected 1,284 seats up for election. According to a Ballotpedia report, there are 99 chambers throughout the country. In 31 legislative chambers across 16 states, state legislators are subject to term limits. In the United States, there are 1,973 state senate seats and 5,413 state house seats. 609 of the 1,973 state senate seats, or 30.9%, come with a limit. 1,462 of the 5,413 state house seats, or 27%, come with a limit. Of the total of 7,386 state legislative seats, 2,071 (28%) are limited. Highlights In 2024, 180 state legislators—79 state senators and 101 state representatives—are term-limited. This represents 3.1% of the 5,793 total seats up for election in November 2024. There are less term-limited legislators in 2024 than in 2022 and 2020. In 2022 and 2020, there were 252 and 211 term-limited state legislators, respectively. Ballotpedia tracked the most term-limited legislators in 2010 when 375 legislators were termed out. 101 Republicans are term-limited,...