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The 2018 and 2020 congressional elections were filled with dramatic developments for women candidates. But in very different ways. The 2018 election set a record, with a total of 126 women elected to serve in the US House and Senate, far surpassing the 110 who served in the prior Congress. There has not been a single election year jump this large since the historic “year of the woman” elections in 1992. But in 2018, the success of women candidates was entirely on the Democratic side of the aisle. In fact, as these historic numbers were being achieved, the number of Republican women serving in the House fell to its lowest number in several decades.
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