Election Analysis

  • Results from the 2021 Elections

    Last Update: December 3, 2021 11:17am ET The Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University, releases results for women in this year’s election contests. Large City Mayoral Races Atlanta, GA: Felicia Moore (D) advanced out of the initial round of voting in the city’s mayoral election. She...

  • Teaching Tool: Applying Gender and Intersectional Lenses to U.S. Elections

    Teaching about politics and government in the current political context means grappling with both longstanding dynamics and new and evolving realities. It also requires providing students the necessary tools to understand today’s political events through multiple and layered lenses of analyses. Gender and race, and importantly the intersection of both, have...

  • New Records for Women in New Jersey and Virginia

    Women set new records as general election candidates in New Jersey and Virginia state legislative races following the June 8th primaries, according to preliminary data from the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University. While Virginia did not select one of the two Black women competing...

  • "Our nation will be stronger for it." - A Q&A with Mayor Susan Shin Angulo

    The Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) recently released new data on women's representation at the municipal level, revealing that women hold less than one-third of seats in municipal governments (in cities and towns with populations over 10,000) nationwide. To provide additional context for this data, we asked one of those municipal officeholders...

  • How Gender Shapes Public Opinion in American Politics

    In this blog post, we interview experts about the gender gap in American politics as it relates to public opinion and policy issues. This post is a curated conversation, moderated by CAWP Research Associate Claire Gothreau, with gender and politics experts intended to illuminate gender differences across a variety of policy attitudes. The interview has been...

  • "The overrepresentation of men in all political offices is troubling."

    Dr. Mirya Holman is associate professor of political science at Tulane University. Among her many publications on gender and American politics, she is the author of Women in Politics in the American City (Temple University Press, 2014), which examines the effect of female mayors and city council members on urban politics. We asked Dr. Holman to share...