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A record-breaking 103 women were elected or reelected to the House, causing many to call it the "Year of the Woman" in a reference to the first such year, the 1992 Senate elections. [31] [32] [33] Sharice Davids and Deb Haaland became the first Native American women ever elected to either house of Congress. [34]
This is a list of individuals serving in the United States House of Representatives (as of January 3, 2025, the 119th Congress). [1] The membership of the House comprises 435 seats for representatives from the 50 states, apportioned by population, as well as six seats for non-voting delegates from U.S. territories and the District of Columbia.
This is the list of women who have served as speakers and leaders of federal, state and territorial legislatures in the United States. ... Republican/NPL: January 3 ...
After record numbers of GOP women ran in 2020 and even more in 2022 (though their numbers were still well behind Democrats), 2024 saw a decline in the number of Republican women running, and the ...
A record number of female Republicans ran that year, a record broken again in 2022, when 261 GOP female candidates ran for the House, according to the Center for Women and Politics at the Rutgers ...
There are 92 Democratic women serving in the House, versus 33 Republican women. Meanwhile, Democrats have 55 Black voting members in the House, versus 4 GOP members, and Democrats have 37 Hispanic ...
The first female U.S. senator, Rebecca Latimer Felton, represented Georgia for a single day in 1922, and the first woman elected to the Senate, Hattie Caraway, was elected from Arkansas in 1932. Since its establishment in 1789, 60 women have served in the upper house of the United States Congress .
To get more women to run, women’s experiences need to be treated as an asset, said Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, who bested Republican Joe Kent in 2022 and again in 2024 in a ...