Election Results and Analysis

What to Watch: Women, Money, & Politics Watch 2024

We recently launched CAWP’s Women, Money, & Politics Watch 2024—a project that will follow the gender implications of campaign finance with the help of data from OpenSecrets. We’re analyzing major party candidates – women and men – in congressional and state elections with a focus on money raised from individuals including self-financed contributions. We’ll...

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Results from the March 19th Primaries in Illinois and Ohio

Two primaries were held on Tuesday in Illinois and Ohio. Full context about women in the 2024 elections, including candidate lists, summaries, and historical comparisons, is available via the Center for American Women and Politics’ (CAWP) Election Watch.Among the most notable results for women:All women U.S. House incumbents from Illinois and Ohio will run...

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Results from the 2024 Mississippi Primaries

One primary was held on Tuesday in Mississippi. Full context about women in the 2024 elections, including candidate lists, summaries, and historical comparisons, is available via the Center for American Women and Politics’ (CAWP) Election Watch.Among the most notable results for women:Mississippi is one of two states that has never sent a woman to the U.S...

Results for Women Candidates in Election 2023

FINAL UPDATE: December 21, 2023 (10:45am). Now updated with results from Louisiana's November 18th general election.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. Key results for women candidates in the 2023 election include...

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Louisiana Will Elect Its First Woman Attorney General: Results for Women Candidates in the Louisiana Primaries

LAST UPDATED: November 7, 2023 (11:00am) Nonpartisan primaries were held on Saturday in Louisiana. Candidates who received more than 50% of the vote won the election outright, while the top two vote-getters in the remaining contests will advance to a November 18th general election. Full context about women in the 2023 elections, including candidate lists...

Women of Color and Young Women are Energized to Vote

Women continued to vote at higher rates than men in the 2022 midterm elections, as they have done for more than four decades. However, understanding why women turn out at higher rates than their male counterparts – across age and racial/ethnic groups – is at least partly context-dependent and specific to particular groups. In 2022, abortion was a mobilizing...

Debate-Watching with a Gender Lens

This year’s primary debates provide us — for the first time this cycle — with an opportunity to observe and evaluate gender and intersectional dynamics among presidential contenders in a setting where they are directly engaging with each other. Here are some tips of how to watch this week’s debates with a gender lens. 1.Observe the optics of the debate stage...

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