Potential Milestones for Women in Election 2024

The Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University, has gathered information on potential milestones and historic moments for women in the 2024 elections. In our new fact sheet, Election 2024: Potential Milestones and Firsts, CAWP experts have created a state-by-state list of candidacies that could lead to breakthroughs for women’s representation.

CAWP will host a briefing tomorrow, October 8th at 1pm ET to discuss 2024 potential milestones alongside our other data and analysis regarding women in the 2024 elections. Participants will include CAWP Director Debbie Walsh, Director of Research Kelly Dittmar, Director of Data Chelsea Hill, and Senior Scholar Kira Sanbonmatsu.

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Election 2024: Potential Milestones and Firsts is an expansive list of possible gains for women in 2024, with ratings from Cook Political Report, where available, gauging the likelihood of an accomplishment. Some key milestones deemed most likely based on current race ratings include:

• Angela Alsobrooks (D) could become the first Black woman to represent Maryland in the U.S. Senate.
• Lisa Blunt Rochester (D) could become the first woman and the first Black woman to represent Delaware in the U.S. Senate.
• If both Alsobrooks and Blunt Rochester win election, they would become just the fourth and fifth Black women to serve in the Senate in history and will mark the first time more than one Black woman has served in the Senate at the same time.
• Julie Fedorchak (R) could become the first woman to represent North Dakota in the U.S. House. North Dakota is one of two states, alongside Mississippi, that have never sent a woman to the House.
• Sarah McBride (D) could become the first openly transgender person to serve in the U.S. Congress.
• Nellie Pou (D) could become the first Latina to represent New Jersey in the U.S. Congress.
• Elizabeth Steiner (D) could become the first woman to serve as treasurer of Oregon.
• Tina Cannon (R) and Catherine Voutaz (D) are running in an all-woman contest to become the first woman auditor of Utah.
• Jaime Herrera Beutler (R) could be the first Latina to serve as public lands commissioner in Washington.

Learn more at Election 2024: Potential Milestones and Firsts and register to attend tomorrow’s briefing here.