Nationwide, preliminary numbers for the 2018 elections show 66 women have announced their candidacy or shown interest in running for governor, CAWP data show. This year may not change the history books much: New Jersey’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Republican Kim Guadagno lags in the polls. While New Jersey has a woman on the ballot for governor, and both states have female candidates for lieutenant governor, New Jersey has had just one female governor in its past and Virginia has had none. In both states, 2017 represents the highest number of women candidates running for state office since at least 2007, according to the analysis.īut the ceiling for higher level office may still be hard to crack. New Jersey has 79 women on the ballot for state office, up from 72 in 2013, the last time both the General Assembly and state Senate were up for election. In the Old Dominion, 53 women are running for state office from lieutenant governor to delegate compared with 45 in the last election and 31 in 2013, according to a Center for Public Integrity analysis of data from Rutgers’ Center for American Women and Politics. The Virginia results, especially, could be a harbinger of what’s to come because the state’s electorate closely resembles the demographics of the country. The two states are the only ones to hold major off-year elections in 2017, but they could provide a forecast of 2018, when thousands of seats nationwide are up for election in both federal and state races. The most women candidates in at least a decade are on Tuesday’s ballot in Virginia and New Jersey - what may be the first glimpse of new political activism in the Trump era. Democrat Philip Murphy beat her by 14 percentage points, 56 percent to 42 percent, to replace term-limited GOP Gov. The previous record for women legislators in the state was set after the 2013 elections in which women won 37 seats, according to CAWP numbers.īut Republican Kim Guadagno was not able to make history as the second governor of the Garden State. If both Democrats win the two-person office, it would turn things around for women in New Jersey’s Legislature: instead of losing a seat, women would set a new record with 38 out of 120 seats. As of Thursday afternoon, District 8 was caught in a four-way-tie between two women Democrats, Maryann Merlino and Joanne Schwartz, and two Republican men, incumbent Joe Howarth and Ryan Peters. In New Jersey, women lost at least one seat in the Legislature but two Assembly seats remain on the line. In District 27, Republican Roxanne Robinson leads by 124 votes, while Democrat Shelly Simonds trails by 12 votes in District 94. As of Thursday afternoon, two districts with women candidates remained too close to call - leaving it unclear if Democrats would win control of the House. Women won two of the three open seats picked up by Democrats and can claim nine of the party’s 13 victories over Republican incumbents. In 2013, women held 19 seats, the previous ceiling for women in the House, according to Center for American Women and Politics statistics dating back to 1975.įemale candidates especially played a major role in helping Virginia’s Democrats. Women have won at least 27 of the 100 delegate seats, compared with the 17 currently in office. 9, 2017, Update: In Tuesday’s elections, women gained at least 10 seats in Virginia’s House of Delegates, breaking the record of women representatives in the state. A total of 36 women won in the 2017 legislative elections compared with 37 in the previous cycle, after two female candidates conceded in District 8’s four-way tie. New Jersey did not break records for women. Democratic women gained 10 more seats in the House, compared with Republicans who won two more than in 2013. 12, 2018, Update: After a protracted battle about a close election in Virginia, the numbers are finally clear: A total of 29 women won Virginia’s 2017 House of Delegates races, a record number of women up from the 2013 high of 19 out of 100 seats.ĭemocratic candidate for District 94 Shelly Simonds conceded Wednesday, settling a deadlock race and ending the possibility of a bipartisan balance in the House for the first time in 17 years.ĭespite Simonds’ loss, Virginia Democrats made large strides with the election and women candidates had a lot to do with their success.
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