Do we have any state legislatures that will be at least 50% women in 2019?

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I'm curious if anyone knows. I saw a Facebook post from local Dem party that more than half of the newly elected state legislators in Maine were women, but I don't know if that means the whole Maine legislature will 50% or more women because I'm not sure if every seat had an election this year. It seems like it, but I don't know for sure. Curious if anyone can find out about this. I tried Googling, but not coming up with any articles. Thanks.

[niyad]

1. excellent question. a number of countries mandate gender equality in legislative representation.

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2. I bet Arkansas will not. 32 out of 100 in house. And 7

out of 35 state senators are the women.

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3. I think it might have just been the Maine State House...

I don't know for sure. The post came from the Maine House Dems.

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4. I only found this one article from earlier this year

that talks about how some of the states could potentially have 50%+ women legislators after the 2018 general election, but I don't know how it actually played out.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/30/us/politics/women-state-legislators.html

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5. Maybe NV legislature/ Definitely NV Supreme Court

We have 63 legislators, 42 in the state assembly and 21 in the state senate. Women will be the majority in the assembly. But we may have a legislature with a majority of women if Clark County appoints women to fill the two seats vacated by men in the state senate. 32 women, 31 men.

And with Tuesdays election, women will make up a majority of the NV Supreme Court!



https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/female-candidates-including-cegavske-make-historic-gains-after-midterm-election

Further down the ballot, a record number of women prevailed in Nevada’s legislative races, and three victories by female candidates in state Supreme Court races means Nevada’s highest court will soon be majority female.

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The Year of the Women

2018 was touted as the Year of the Women, and in Nevada, the adage proved true.

Thirty women will serve in the Legislature next year after women either held onto or picked up seats in six competitive races in the Assembly. (That number would have been 31 if former Assemblywoman Jill Dickman, a Republican, had defeated incumbent Democrat Skip Daly for the Assembly District 31 seat.)

With final results in from Clark County, there will be 22 women and 20 men in the Assembly, a majority in that chamber, and 13 men and eight women in the Senate. In total, there will be 33 men and 30 women serving in the Legislature.

However, there are three seats that will be up for appointment before the upcoming legislative session — those held by Democratic state Sens. Tick Segerblom and Ford and newly elected Republican Assemblyman Dennis Hof, who died last month. If two of those seats are filled by women, it is possible for the Legislature to be made up of a majority of women.

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6. That's excellent. Please let keep us updated when the final outcome is known. :) n/t

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7. Hey, I just found an article about this today.

"In Maine, voters elected 60 women to the House and 12 to the Senate, for a total of 72 women in the Legislature – claiming 39 percent of the total 186 seats.

The last Legislature had 64 women, or 34 percent of the seats."

"Maine is among the states with the highest percentage of women holding state legislative office, along with Nevada, where women will be in the majority, and Colorado, Oregon, Vermont, Alaska, Arizona and Washington."


https://www.centralmaine.com/2018/11/09/women-in-the-maine-house-and-senate-and-blaine-house/?fbclid=IwAR3oXq23kk-Ob6WpFi4UOpN7dYMdIHl_0cO2guNgWVfz1YobajeQId1GXC4