With midterm results still coming in, Latino candidates — mostly Democrats — are expected to make record gains in state legislatures across the U.S.
So far, 64 new Latino Democrats and 15 new Latino Republicans have won state legislative seats, Kenneth Romero-Cruz, the executive director of theThere are still some outstanding races, but this could bring the number of Hispanic state legislators to more than 500, which would be a record.Arizona, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont.
i, who is Mexican American and Ojibwe, made history as the first non-binary person elected to the Minnesota Legislature.Of the 451 Hispanic state legislators in office before Tuesday's midterms, 87% were Democrats, and 13% were Republicans, Romero-Cruz said. That's a significant decline for Republicans since 2002, when around 30% of Hispanic state legislators were GOP members, Romero-Cruz said.
"This further counters the false narrative of Republican gains in the Hispanic community. Latinos are overwhelmingly electing more and more Latinos running on the Democratic ticket," Kenneth Romero-Cruz said.
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