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Twenty-four states have elected a total of 34 female senators. (A total of 44 women have served in the Senate, but 10 were appointed). The party breakdown is similar — 22 Democrats and 12 ...
Alabama, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Nebraska and New Hampshire have each sent three women to the Senate. Related: 22 states have ever elected a Black woman to Congress. Women in the governor’s ...
Fewer states than ever will have split-party Senate delegations. Around two dozen states elected both a Republican and a Democratic senator in the 1980s.
Around two dozen states regularly elected both a Republican and a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in the 1970s and 1980s. Only Maine, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin remain.
Twenty-two states have ever elected at least one Black woman to Congress, and 29 have elected at least one woman of color, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. House and Senate ...
Days after the 2022 midterm, and as final votes are still being tallied, state lawmakers have started to elect their leaders for the 2023 Utah Legislature. Utah Senate Democrats met Thursday ...
While it was once common for a state to have a senator from each party, that’s now rare. ... Republicans are more likely to be elected in rural states and Democrats in urban states.
For the first time ever, two Black women have been elected to serve in the U.S. Senate, while voters also sent a transgender lawmaker to the U.S. House of Representatives ...