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Fortune: More Women and People of Color Are Running for Office—Reflecting the People They Represent

October 11, 2018

At Fortune, Natasha Bach explores our research on women and people of color running for office.

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It looks like our elected officials may soon begin to look more like the people they’re supposed to represent. According to data compiled by the Reflective Democracy Campaign, Americans are 51% women and 40% people of color—but between 2012 and 2016, two-thirds of candidates and elected officials at the local, state, and federal levels were white men. Women and people of color are making gains: since 2012, women of color candidates for Congress have increased by 75%, and white women candidates by 36%—an increase of 44% for women overall. The jump for men of color is less marked, with an 8% increase. Perhaps even more significantly, the dominance of white male candidates is dropping off, down 13% since 2012. 

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