Excerpting, editing, re-reporting by
Carolyn Bennett
“People
are starting to wake up and realize that the politics of fear - the politics of
voting for lesser evils - is getting us all the things that we were afraid of
getting in the first place” [Maine Green Party Chair Asher Platts]
Takes a lot of courage
Noteworthy omitted in Center for American Women and Politics
data
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| Dr.Jill Stein 2012 U.S. Presidential candidate with VP Cheri Honkala |
“Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein won more
votes in Maine than in any other state”; and though one percent might not sound
like much, it is the first time, since Ralph Nader in 2000, “that any state has
voted at least 1 percent for a Green presidential candidate.”
Center for American
Women and Politics data
113th U.S. Congress will see highest seating of women
20 women (16 Democratic Party, 4 Republican Party) will serve in the U.S.
Senate; at least 77 women (57 Democratic Party, 20 Republican Party) in the U.S. House.
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| U.S. Senate assembled |
UNITED STATES SENATE
Eleven (11) women won their Senate races (10 Democratic, 1
Republican; five newcomers, six incumbent reelections)
Four newcomers won open seats:
Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Deb Fischer (R-NE), Heidi Heitkamp (D) and Tammy Baldwin
(D-WI);
One, Elizabeth Warren (DMA), defeated
an incumbent
Six incumbents won re-election: Dianne
Feinstein (D-CA), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Claire
McCaskill (D-MO), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), and Maria Cantwell (D-WA).
Nine women were
continuing their terms and remain in the Senate (6 Democratic, 3 Republican)
Seventeen women (12D,
5R) were in the Senate in 2012; two Republican women (Kay Bailey Hutchison,
R-TX; Olympia Snowe, R-ME, did not seek re-election.
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| U.S. House assembled |
UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Eighteen (18) new women (15 Democratic, 3 Republican) were
elected to the U.S. House of Representatives (two races at the time of this
report had not been called)
Fifty-nine (59) incumbents won re-election.
113th
Congress:
Fifty-nine (42 Democratic, 17 Republican)
re-elected incumbents
Four (4 Democratic) defeated
incumbent members of Congress
Fourteen (11 Democratic, 3
Republican) women won open House seats.
New
women in U.S. House:
Ann Kirkpatrick (D-AZ); Julia
Brownley (D-CA); Gloria Negrete McLeod (D-CA); Elizabeth Esty (D-CT); Lois
Frankel (D-FL); Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI); Tammy Duckworth (D-IL); Cheri Bustos (D-IL);
Jackie Walorski (R-IN); Susan Brooks (R-IN); Ann Wagner (R-MO); Carol
Shea-Porter (D-NH); Ann McLane Kuster (D-NH); Dina Titus (D-NV); Michele Lujan
Grisham (D-NM); Grace Meng (D-NY); Joyce Beatty (D-OH); Suzan
DelBene (D-WA)
Three non-voting delegates from Guam, the Virgin Islands,
and Washington, D.C., were re-elected.
The previous record number of women serving in the House was
73, which occurred between 2009 and 2012.
When the 113th Congress convenes, it
will include the largest class of women newcomers in a generation.
Seven women members were not general election candidates for
the House: Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Shelley Berkley (D-NV); Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
ran for the U.S. Senate; Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) and Sue Myrick (R-NC) retired; and
Sandy Adams (R-FL) and Jean Schmidt (R-OH) lost their primaries.
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| Capitol Building South CarolinaKatrina Shealy in residence |
STATE HOUSES
New
Hampshire became the first ever U.S. state to have an all-woman Congressional
delegation ─ as well as a woman serving as chief executive.
Beginning
in 2013, New Hampshire will have a woman governor, two women United States
Senators, and an all-woman (two-seat) United States House delegation.
Governor-elect Maggie Hassan (Democratic-NH) joins seated governors
of Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and South Carolina (Republicans)
Five women (1 Democratic, 4 Republican) will hold
governorships, a decline from the current six, in 2013
Further History-making
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| United States Capital City Capitol Building Washington Monument |
Twenty-eight (28) record-setting women of color in the House
(26 Democratic, 2 Republican: 13 African American women, 13D; 9 Latinas, 7D, 2R;
6 Asian/Pacific Islander Americans, 6D)
New members: Six women of color (Democrats): one
African-American (Joyce Beatty), three Asian/Pacific Islander Americans (Tammy Duckworth,
Tulsi Gabbard, Grace Meng), two Latinas (Lujan Grisham, Negrete McLeod.)
Four
states, for the first time, elected women to the U.S. Senate: Hawaii,
Massachusetts, North Dakota, Wisconsin
Deb
Fischer (R-NE) is the first Nebraska woman elected to a full Senate term.
Tammy
Baldwin (D-WI): the first openly gay person in the U.S. Senate.
Mazie
Hirono (D-HI): the first Asian/Pacific Islander American woman elected to the
U.S. Senate, first U.S. Senator born in Japan, the second woman of color to
serve in the Senate
Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI): the first Hindu-American in Congress. Two women military veterans among new women in U.S. House:
Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and Tulsi Gabbard.
Katrina Shealy became South Carolina’s first woman elected to
the State Senate, giving all United States state legislatures representation by women
Sources and notes
Elections data, Center for American Women and Politics
http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/press_room/news/documents/PressRelease_11-07-12.pdf
Center for American Women and Politics
The Center for American Women and Politics promotes greater
knowledge and understanding about women’s participation in politics and
government and enhances women’s influence and leadership in public life. A unit
of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers (the State University of New
Jersey), the CAWP is nationally recognized as the leading source of scholarly
research and current data about American women’s political participation.
Over four decades of analyzing and interpreting women’s
participation in American politics, the Center for American Women and Politics
(CAWP) has provided a foundation and context for the discussion. http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/
Eagleton Institute of Politics
Suffragist and founder of New Jersey’s League of Women Voters, Florence Peshine Eagleton’s bequest established the Eagleton Institute of Politics in 1956 at Rutgers University.The Institute explores state and national politics through research, education, and public service, linking the study of politics with its day-to-day practice.
Included in the Institute are the Center for American Women
and Politics (CAWP) and the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling (ECPIP),
both established in the early 1970’s. Eagleton houses the Center on the American
Governor, the Clifford P. Case Professorship of Public Affairs, and the Arthur
J. Holland Program on Ethics in Government. http://www.eagleton.rutgers.edu/about/mission.php
“Shealy Breaks Into South Carolina's All-Male Senate” (AP
via USA Today, A woman broke into South Carolina’s all-male Senate on Tuesday
as a petition candidate defeating longtime legislative foe of Gov. Nikki Haley,
in the House, voters replaced a Republican woman with a Democratic one), November
7, 2012, http://www.wltx.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=208089
Worthy of note; it takes a lot of courage to accomplish what
Jill Stein accomplished ─ Greens continuing progress
“Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein won more
votes in Maine than in any other state”; and though one percent might not sound
like much, it was the first time, since Ralph Nader in 2000, “that any state
has voted at least 1 percent for a Green presidential candidate.
Municipal elections in Portland, Maine, saw two Green
incumbents win re-election and another gained a new seat on the school board.
The number of votes Green presidential candidate Jill Stein
won in Maine this election was just over 1 percent.
In 2000, Nader won 6 percent of the Maine vote. Green Party member David Marshall said this
year’s results are a good sign. “Our influence is growing in the state of
Maine.” Maine was the first U.S. state to establish a Green Party back in 1984
and has the highest percentage of registered Greens in the nation.
“Maine Green Party Celebrates Election Milestones” (Reported
by Patty B. Wight), November 7, 2012, http://www.mpbn.net/News/MaineNewsArchive/tabid/181/ctl/ViewItem/mid/3475/ItemId/24591/Default.aspx
2012 Exit Poll Data: Presidential Vote in Battleground
States http://cawp.rutgers.edu/press_room/news/documents/PressRelease_11-07-12-gendergap.pdf
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State
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Overall
Results
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Gender
Gap
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Women’s
Vote
|
Women
for Romney
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Men
for Romney
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Women
for Obama
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Men
for Obama
|
|
IA
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Obama 52%
Romney 46%
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15 pts.
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+19% Obama
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40%
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53%
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59%
|
44%
|
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NH
|
Obama 52%
Romney 46%
|
11 pts
|
+16% Obama
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42%
|
51%
|
58%
|
47%
|
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NV
|
Obama 52%
Romney 46%
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10 pts.
|
+14% Obama
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42%
|
51%
|
56%
|
46%
|
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OH
|
Obama 50%
Romney 48%
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10 pt.
|
+11% Obama
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44%
|
53%
|
55%
|
45%
|
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WI
|
Obama 53%
Romney 46%
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10 pts.
|
+15% Obama
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42%
|
51%
|
57%
|
47%
|
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FL
|
Obama 50%
Romney 49%
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7 pts., 6 pts.
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+7% Obama
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46%
|
52%
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53%
|
46%
|
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VA
|
Obama 51%
Romney 48%
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7 pts.
|
+9% Obama
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45%
|
51%
|
54%
|
47%
|
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NC
|
Obama 48%
Romney 51%
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5 pts.
|
+29% Obama
|
49%
|
54%
|
51%
|
45%
|
|
CO
|
Obama 51%
Romney 47%
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0 pts.
|
+1% Obama
|
49%
|
46%
|
50%
|
50%
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