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Just looked at the numbers at the National Conference of State Legislatures. They caution that these are only preliminary numbers because of races yet to be decided but even so, there is a very clear DROP in the number of women in the country’s state legislatures (more than 100), with a VERY big drop in the number of Democratic women officeholders (more than 200) and a big increase in the number of Republican women officeholders (more than 100).
2010 2011
Total seats: 7,382 7,382
Total women: 1,808 1,693
Total Dems: 1,263 1,043
Total GOP 529 633
*minor parties not included
I’ll update this when the numbers firm up.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:45 am November 3rd, 2010 in Gender, Statehouse, Women
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