Returning Members' Share of Legislative Seats
		Size of	Incumbents	Resurgents	Neophytes	Percent
		Legislature				Neophytes
	1924	32	19	0	13	40.63
	1927	32	19	2	11	34.38
	1932	32	23	1	8	25.00
	1939	10	6	0	4	40.00
	1945	10	1	1	8	80.00
	1947	40	9	4	27	67.50
	1950	40	21	0	19	47.50
	1951	40	26	2	12	30.00
	1953	40	27	2	11	27.50
	1955	40	32	0	8	20.00
	1962	50	21	3	26	52.00
	1966	50	31	3	16	32.00
	1971	55	41	3	11	20.00
	1976	65	44	1	20	30.77
	1981	65	52	1	12	18.46
	1987	69	47	0	22	31.88
	1992	65	50	0	15	23.08
	1996	69	44	0	25	36.23
	1998	65	54	2	9	13.85
	2003	65	52	3	10	15.38
	2008	69	55	0	14	20.29
	Note: "Resurgents" are persons who served in a prior legislature but not in
	the immediately preceding one. Several analyses on this website ignore
	such resurgents and only calculate data on the basis of incumbency.