by Katie Ziegler
As we wrote yesterday, the New Hampshire Senate has made history as the first state legislative chamber with a majority of female members. The South Carolina Senate is notable for the opposite reason: it will have no female members next session. One of the two women who previously served in the Senate chose not to run for reelection, and the other was defeated in the primary. Five women ran for the Senate this fall, but all of them lost.
The last state with an all-male chamber was Louisiana, where the Senate had no women from 1980 until partway through 1991.
Nov. 14 update: We just discovered there were no women in the Arkansas Senate in 1999-2000, so "the last state with an all-mail chamber" in the paragraph above should be amended.
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