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...
LAST UPDATED: May 15, 2024 (6:00am ET)Five primaries were held on Tuesday in Alabama, Arkansas, California, North Carolina, and Texas. 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...
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...
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...
