New Mexico may elect historic all-female US House delegation
New Mexico voters have a chance this year to send a historic all-female U.S. House delegation to Congress, no matter which party wins races. And the state’s three congresswomen may be all women of color — another national milestone.
Women are seeking the Democratic and Republican nominations in all six of the state’s primary races for three congressional seats. In each of those races, at least one Latina or one Native American woman is running in her respective party’s primary contests in what has turned out to be some of the most diverse political battles in the county.
New Hampshire in 2013 became the first state to have an all-female Congressional delegation (Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Kelly Ayotte, and Reps. Ann McLane Kuster and Carol Shea-Porter), according to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. Deleware’s lone member of the U.S. House, Democratic Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, who is black, helped give the state the nation’s first all-female of color U.S. House delegation in 2017.
But New Mexico could wind up with the largest U.S. House delegation of women and women of color in the nation’s history. The state’s population of about 2 million is 49 percent Hispanic and 9 percent Native American.
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