Democrats gained a trifecta (control of the governor's office and both legislative chambers) in Colorado, Illinois, Connecticut, Maine, New Mexico, New York and Nevada as well as in Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands.[43][2] Republicans lost trifectas in Kansas, Michigan, Wisconsin and New Hampshire.[37][44] After the election, Democrats have 14 trifectas, Republicans have 21 trifectas, and 14 states have a divided government.[37][lower-alpha 9] Minnesota became the lone state in which each party controlled one house of the state legislature.[37] In Alaska, Republicans won the gubernatorial election and held a majority of the seats in both chambers of the state legislature, but a coalition of independents, Democrats, and Republicans elected independent Bryce Edgmon as Speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives.[45]