answer: As of the U.S. gubernatorial elections of 2010 , the Republican party holds an outright majority of approximately 440 with 3,890 seats (53% of total) compared to the Democratic party's number of 3,450 (47% of total) seats elected on a partisan ballot.<ref name="www.ncsl.org/?tabid=21634"> Of the 7,382 seats in all of the state legislatures combined, independents and third parties account for only 15 members, not counting the 49 members of the Nebraska Legislature , which is the only legislature in the nation to hold non-partisan elections to determine its members.