A record-setting night also delivered the youngest woman and first female Muslims ever elected to the House.
Women are heading to the House of Representatives in record-shattering numbers.
As of early Wednesday morning, 99 women had won seats, breaking the current session’s record of 84 women. Nine races with at least one female candidate were left undecided.
It is the latest in a year of record-breaking for women, who filed to run for Congress in historic numbers and won their primaries in historic numbers, too. In total, more than 115 women won their races out of 276 on the ballot: 11 women won Senate bids and 9 women won gubernatorial races.
And it’s not just in the numbers: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the youngest woman elected to the House, while Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are the first Muslim women elected to the House. Sharice Davids, a lesbian, lawyer, and former mixed martial arts fighter, defeated a Republican incumbent in Kansas and will join Debra Haaland of New Mexico, another winning Democrat on Tuesday, as the first Native American women elected to Congress.