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Boosted by wins in the 2022 midterm elections, more women are now serving in Congress than ever before. A record 150 women are holding seats – 25 in the Senate and 125 in the House.
Source: CAWP Women Elected Officials Database. Breakdown Number (Party) Total Senate 100 (48D, 49R, 3I) Women in the Senate 25 (15D, 9R, 1I) Total House 435 (212D, 220R, 3 Vacancies) Women in the House 126 (92D, 34R), plus 4 (2D, 2R) Delegates.
Women in the U.S. House of Representatives 2024. Current U.S. House. 127. (93D, 34R) 29.2% of 435 seats. In addition to the women currently serving, 4 (2D, 2R) women serve as non-voting delegates representing American Samoa, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Full list of officeholders. Historic U.S. House. 378.
Women have served in the United States House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the United States Congress, since 1917 following the election of Republican Jeannette Rankin from Montana, the first woman in Congress. [1] In total, 378 women have been U.S. representatives and seven more have been non-voting delegates.As of November 12, 2024, there are 127 women in the U.S. House of ...
Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was elected by her colleagues as House Democratic Whip, the highest-ranking woman in the history of the U.S. Congress. 2001 Representative Nita Lowey (D-NY) became the first woman to chair the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Newly Elected Women in Congress in 2023. Twenty-four women were newly elected in 2022—16 Democrats and eight Republicans. Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) was the only newly elected woman in the Senate (and the first female senator from Alabama). Jennifer McClellan won in a special election in late February and will push the number of women in the ...
Across both chambers, there are 109 Democratic women and 44 Republican women in the new Congress. Women account for 43% of House Democrats and 31% of Senate Democrats, compared with 16% of House Republicans and 18% of Senate Republicans.
One hundred seventeen women are currently serving in the House, up from 101 in 2019. But President-elect Joe Biden nominated Rep. Deb Haaland to be secretary of the Interior, so her seat will...
Washington, D.C. – Today, the Democratic Women’s Caucus (DWC) announced the election of their new leadership and historic membership for the 118th Congress, helmed by Chair Lois Frankel (FL-22) and Vice Chairs Nikema Williams (GA-5) and Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-3).
Led by our Chair Congresswoman Lois Frankel and Vice Chairs Congresswomen Nikema Williams and Teresa Leger Fernández, the Democratic Women’s Caucus represents women from all corners of the country.