House of Representatives has record number of women elected

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:

• The groundbreaking results of the 2020 elections favored women representatives as more got elected to serve in the U.S Congress.
• Among those 103 elected are one Republican and 46 Democrats who are all women in color.
• The 2018 mid-terms elections also showed unprecedented records, including the win of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, the youngest representative who was elected at that time.   

The U.S. House of Representatives is about to enter a new era of politics as an unprecedented number of women got elected for seats in this year’s election.

Rutgers University’s Center for American Women and Politics reports that 103 women will be a member of the 435-seat Congress. While some races are still not yet concluded, confirmed were one Republican and 46 Democrats, all of them are women of color.

For Republican women, the election night was a glorious moment as the party added no less than  23 female candidates to the chamber ranks. Having such numbers will bring the GOP closer to breaking the highest number of most women Republicans in the House since 2006 with 25.

The newcomer batch of women representatives will take in at least 21 non-seating women, thirteen from Republicans and Democrats with 8.

In total, 298 female candidates were on the selection for House with 94 Republicans and 204 for Democrats, and the women in colors are at 115 from those numbers.

At present, 102 women are to serve at the Lower House, higher compared to the 2016 election when 84 congresswomen were voted. In the Senate, 26 women are currently in its 100-seat.

Meanwhile, the midterm elections in 2018 had some groundbreaking records in Congress representation. This is also seen as the most diverse batch, having extraordinary statistics in terms of women legislators.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, who was 31 years of age then, was the youngest woman voted to Congress during that year. The first Muslim, as well as Native American women, were also elected, namely representatives Ilhan Omar (Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), and Sharice Davids (Kan.), and  Reps. Deb Haaland (N.M.).

She Should Run founder and CEO Erin Loos Cutraro, emphasized this year’s polls will be dissimilar to 2018 midterms because all parties have unprecedented records.

Cutraro, whose organization is a nonpartisan and non-profit aimed to bring more women into politics, added that it is vital for the females to continue with the progress. Americans, she also said, should realize that the whole nation can benefit from having women lawmakers in both the Senate and Congress.

Source: AOL