Women Have Been Elected To A Record Number Of Governor's Posts In The U.S.

In addition, a Black woman was elected governor for the first time.

The U.S. has set a historic record for the number of women serving as state governors: following the midterm elections, at least 15 women will hold the office of governor. Democratic Party candidates performed particularly well, winning in several states, according to NBC News.

Among the winners are former Ohio Health Director Amy Acton, who was elected governor of the state, and Texas State Representative Gina Inohosa. In Tennessee, Republican Marsha Blackburn won, and in Georgia, Democrat and former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms won.

Bottom’s victory was particularly significant: she will become the first Black woman governor in U.S. history.

“I am a daughter of the Rio Grande Valley. No one could have imagined that one day a girl from this region would become governor of Texas,” Inohosa said in her victory speech.

Bottoms also addressed the people of Georgia, playing on the title of the 1971 song “If I Were Your Woman”: “If I were your woman. Well, now I’m your woman, and here’s what I’ll do: I’ll never, never, never stop loving you.”

In Minnesota, Amy Klobuchar won the governorship; in Rhode Island, Helena Folks won; and in Maine, Hannah Pingree won. Democrats Maura Healey in Massachusetts and Kathy Hochul in New York were re-elected.

The previous record was 14 female governors serving simultaneously. That record will now be surpassed by at least one.

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