Not a Lot of Competition in Legislative Races Across the Country

Washington voters, with their avowed distaste for partisan politics, adopted the "top two" primary scheme to weaken party control over the nomination process. It resulted in a handful of races this year pitting two members of one party against each other.

I'll not weigh in on that here. But I found this report from the Council of State Governments interesting.

Despite more than 5,800 legislative seats appearing on statewide ballots, only 39 percent of those races will feature both a Democratic and Republican contender. The remaining 61 percent are races that are either uncontested or have only one major party candidate squaring off against one or more third party candidates.

Does that seem like a good thing to you?