After this year’s historic blue wave, more women than ever before are set to serve in the next Congress.
The new record — 159 women from both parties — is seven more women than currently serve in the House and Senate, according to data from the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University and CNN election projections.
And next year’s freshmen are a diverse cohort, including the first female Native American senator, Colorado’s first Black female representative and the first Hispanic representative from Nebraska.
