Colorado Democrat Jared Polis has won: 1st openly gay man to be a Governor of a state.
New Mexico is sending a Native American woman to Congress. She's Debra Haaland, a member of the Laguna Pueblo. A second Native American women is also going to Congress, Sharice Davids in Kansas. She's a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation. These are the first two Native American women ever elected to Congress.
Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress.
Democrat Laura Kelly has beaten Republican Secretary of State Kris Kobach, one of the most notorious voter suppression crusaders in the country, to flip the governorship in deep-red Kansas to the Democrats.
Michigan's Democratic candidate Rashida Tlaib and Minnesota's Ilhan Omar will be the first-ever Muslim women in Congress. Omar is a Somali-American.
Democrat Gretchen Whitmer won the governor's race in Michigan.
One of the NRA’s top-funded Republicans went down hard in Virginia. Democrat Jennifer Wexton has unseated Rep. Barbara Comstock. Rep. Wexton promoted more serious gun safety, while Barbara Comstock continued to be one of the top ten NRA-funded House officials.
Ayanna Pressley is now the first-ever black woman to represent Massachusetts in the House.
Florida voters smashed a legacy of Jim Crow and restored voting rights to more than 1 million citizens
Donna Shalala picked up Ileana Ros Lehtinen’s Miami House seat for the Democrats.
Projected 16 House seats flipped from Republican to Democrat so far.
Janie Velencia at fivethirtyeight.com writes: Overall it’s looking like a good night for women. So far, 48 women have been elected to the U.S. House (that number could hit 100 by the end of the night) and six in the Senate. There have also been three female governors elected so far. Among the women elected to office, 23 are women of color. We also have the first two Muslim women in Congress.
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