Women Have Achieved Near Parity with Men Among Democratic State Legislators

In the past decade, women have achieved near parity with men among Democratic state legislators. Women remain less than a quarter of all Republican state legislators.

From 2016 to 2025, women have increased their representation in state legislatures by almost ten percentage points (24.4% to 33.5%). 

  • Women are now nearly 50% of all Democratic state legislators, up from 34.1% in 2016. 
  • While women have increased their representation among Republican state legislators from 2016 to 2025, they are still just 21.3% of Republicans in state legislatures.

 

 

Women have seen representational gains, though varied in size, in nearly every state legislature over this period.

  • Since 2016, women have increased representation among Democratic state legislators in 47 states.

  • Since 2016, women have increased representation among Republican state legislators in 33 states.

 

 

 

 

In 2025, women are more than 50% of Democratic legislators in 28 states, up from 4 states in 2016. Republican women legislators are not at or above parity with men in any state legislature in 2025.

 

 

 

 

The charts below provide more detailed information on women's representation among Democratic and Republican state legislators by state and year. Values for all years but 2025 represent women as a percentage of each party's legislators at the end the year, using pre-election values for even-numbered election years. Values for 2025 are as of July 2025.