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27-10-2022, 08:29 AM
By DAVID CRARY
October 26, 2022 GMT
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A record number of LGBTQ candidates are running for office, according to newly compiled data, and some breakthrough victories are likely. In Massachusetts, Democrat Maura Healey is favored to become the first openly gay candidate elected as the state’s governor. Another lesbian — Democrat Becca Balint -- is favored to win Vermont’s lone U.S. House seat, becoming the first woman and first openly gay person to represent the state in Congress.
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2022 is the first year in which openly LGBTQ candidates ran in all 50 states, ranging from 178 in California to one in Mississippi. Of the candidates, 416 ran for state legislative seats, 119 for Congress, 335 for local positions and 41 for statewide offices.
Among the possible precedent-setters is Erick Russell, running for state treasurer in Connecticut. The fund said he would be the first Black LGBTQ person elected to a statewide office. In Oregon, Democrat Tina Kotek is in a high-profile gubernatorial race; both she and Healey offer the prospect that the U.S. would have an out lesbian as a governor for the first time.
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People of color accounted for about 38% of the LGBTQ candidates
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transgender, nonbinary or gender-nonconforming — they accounted for 14% of all LGBTQ candidates
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89.3% of the LGBTQ candidates ran as Democrats and only 4.5% as Republicans.
https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-...8fcdca4ef9
October 26, 2022 GMT
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A record number of LGBTQ candidates are running for office, according to newly compiled data, and some breakthrough victories are likely. In Massachusetts, Democrat Maura Healey is favored to become the first openly gay candidate elected as the state’s governor. Another lesbian — Democrat Becca Balint -- is favored to win Vermont’s lone U.S. House seat, becoming the first woman and first openly gay person to represent the state in Congress.
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2022 is the first year in which openly LGBTQ candidates ran in all 50 states, ranging from 178 in California to one in Mississippi. Of the candidates, 416 ran for state legislative seats, 119 for Congress, 335 for local positions and 41 for statewide offices.
Among the possible precedent-setters is Erick Russell, running for state treasurer in Connecticut. The fund said he would be the first Black LGBTQ person elected to a statewide office. In Oregon, Democrat Tina Kotek is in a high-profile gubernatorial race; both she and Healey offer the prospect that the U.S. would have an out lesbian as a governor for the first time.
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People of color accounted for about 38% of the LGBTQ candidates
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transgender, nonbinary or gender-nonconforming — they accounted for 14% of all LGBTQ candidates
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89.3% of the LGBTQ candidates ran as Democrats and only 4.5% as Republicans.
https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-...8fcdca4ef9
