Everything You Need for Election 2024

Election Watch 2024 begins now. With primaries for congressional, statewide, and state legislative elections beginning on Super Tuesday next week, the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University, shares CAWP resources for covering women in the 2024 elections.

• 2024 Summary of Women Candidates: This fact sheet provides all the numbers on women running for Congress, governor, statewide executive offices, and state legislatures with accompanying data visualizations. This page includes 2024 numbers compared to historical records and recent election cycles.
• 2024 Potential and Filed Women Candidates: This list of announced and potential women candidates for Congress, governor, and statewide executive offices will update throughout election 2024 as filing deadlines pass and will become the full, final list of all filed candidates for these offices in 2024.
• Election Analysis: Find results for women candidates in every primary election in 2024 at our election analysis page, as well as deeper examinations of emerging trends and themes in election 2024. Right now on CAWP’s Election Analysis page, find a new analysis by CAWP Director of Research Kelly Dittmar on major themes in Election 2024, including current data, departing officeholders, and specific contests to watch.
• Women as Percentage of 2024 Major-Party Candidates and Nominees: See the raw numbers on women’s candidacies in additional context, as CAWP experts explore how women are represented among all candidates and nominees by office and party affiliation with comparisons to recent election cycles.
• Rebound Women Candidates in 2024 Elections: A listing of women who ran for office unsuccessfully in 2022 and are re-entering the race in 2024 for the same or other offices.
• Woman vs. Woman: Congressional and Gubernatorial Races: This resource will develop throughout the primary season with general election contests in which both major-party nominees are women. This page also chronicles all such contests going back to 1944.
• Historical Information:
  • Explore all of our previous election coverage at our Past Candidate and Election Information page.
  • Go in depth on recent election cycles with our post-election reports Marking Midterm Progress (2022), Measuring Success (2020), and Unfinished Business (2018), as well as our report Tracking Gender in the 2020 Presidential Election.

In addition to all these resources, stay tuned to CAWP for an upcoming release in our Women, Money, and Politics Series covering campaign finance in this year's elections, Women, Money, and Politics Watch 2024, as well as race and ethnicity data about women candidates and more detail about women in state legislative races. Find all of our elections data at CAWP’s Election Watch.