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The number of women who will serve in Congress and governorships mostly held steady, though a slight decline in women elected to the House was the unsurprising outcome of a lackluster showing by ...
The number of women in Congress is decreasing but not by much. Overall, 150 women will serve on Capitol Hill in the new Congress, down from the record of 152 set in 2024.
[50] [52] In the early years of women in Congress, such a seat was usually held only until the next general election, and the women retired after that single Congress, thereby becoming a placeholders to finishing elected terms of their husbands. [52] As the years progressed, however, more and more of these widow successors sought reelection.
This is a list of individuals serving in the United States House of Representatives (as of January 20, 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.
Women in national legislatures (as of 1 September 2022) Country Lower House Upper House Last Election Seats Women % W Last Election Seats* Women % W Rwanda: 2018: 80 49 61.3 2019 26 9 34.6 Cuba: 2018: 586 313 53.4
The number of Republican women running for the House this cycle dropped about 36% from 2022, while the number running for Senate dropped by about 45%, according to data from the Center for ...
Pink represents the Women in the United States Senate Pie chart showing female senators in the 119th Congress. Pink is female. There are 26 women currently serving in the United States Senate. This is the highest number of women to have served concurrently in U.S. Senate history. Sixteen are Democrats and ten are Republicans.
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 ...