Percentage of Women in the Congressional Delegation from Each State

There are 435 representatives in the US House and 100 US Senators.  The number of women representatives is now 73.  The number of women senators is 17.  Although the number of congresswomen has tripled over the last 20 years, at the current rate of progress, it will be 2076 before women achieve equal representation. 

In 2009, 19 states are not represented by a woman in either the US House of Representatives or Senate. This is three more states, New Mexico, Oregon and Virginia, with no women in Congress than in 2008.

Maine is the first state to have more women than men in Congress – two women in the US Senate, and one woman and one man in the US House. New Hampshire has an equal number of women and men representing the state in Congress – one female and one male US Senator and one congresswoman and one congressman in the US House.  Four states have never sent a woman to Congress: Delaware, Iowa, Mississippi, and Vermont.

Additional information on African-American women, Latinas, and women of Asian / Pacific Islander descent.

List of members in the US House 

List of members in the US Senate

Source: Center for American Women in Politics (CAWP), Rutgers University

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