6 Four odd out.

• Position: STATELINE - Legislative elections - Brief article

Why are Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey and Virginia the only states to hold legislative elections in odd-numbered years? According to NCSL's blog, The Thicket. it mostly reflects when their new constitutions were adopted and, consequently, when they held their first elections. For Virginia that was 1851, for Louisiana it was 1879. New Jersey's case is a little different. While it did adopt a new constitution in 1947, the governor also expressed a desire that state elections not be overshadowed by the national contest for president. The origins of...