New Jersey elected a new female governor, Mikie Sherrill, on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025, adding to major wins for Democrats in California, New York City and Virginia — where voters came out in droves to ...

When Meghan Meehan-Draper first started working at the Democratic Governors Association, “there were more governors named John than there were women governors,” she told reporters last week. Now, with ...

ATLANTA (AP) — The last time a historic wave of women ran for office, in 1992, California became the first state to send two women to the U.S. Senate. A quarter century after setting that milestone, ...

RICHMOND, Virginia — Former Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger defeated Republican candidate Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears Tuesday night to become Virginia’s first female governor in the commonwealth’s ...

Did you notice that when we went to the polls this month, voters in New Jersey and Virginia elected female candidates for governor? Big news! Come January, America will have women running 14 states ...

Democrat Abigail Spanberger won the Virginia governor's race Tuesday, defeating Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears to give Democrats a key victory heading into the 2026 midterm elections and make ...

The foundation has studied the roadblocks women face in being elected governors, such as the likelihood of an incumbent — almost always a man — winning reelection, and even a sense from women ...

Virginia became the 33rd state to elect a female governor, but the recent race was a rare instance where the two candidates were both women — just the 11th time in the U.S. since 1986.