Women pursuing the 187 legislative seats up for grabs in the state’s November race are their lowest numbers in four election cycles, but their numbers remain impressive, the Secretary of the State said on the 90th anniversary of Connecticut ratifying women’s right to vote.
Ninety-three women are candidates for 59 percent of the 151 state House and 36 Senate seats, down from the 2008 election peak of 102 female candidates for 65 percent of the seats, Susan Bysiewicz says.
Connecticut voters on Sept. 14, 1920 ratified the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteeing women the vote.
“The leaders who made that happen would be proud that in Connecticut, so many of our elected leaders are women,” Bysiewicz said in a statement. “Women are serving in four out of six statewide Constitutional offices in Connecticut, and in 32 percent of the seats in our General Assembly, the highest number we have ever seen in Connecticut.”
In the last decade, five out of the last six election cycles has witnessed an increase in the total number of women running for the General Assembly. This year, 14 women are candidates for state senate and 79 are candidates for state representative.Â
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