▲ U.S. first public lesbian governor Maura Healy
In the midterm elections on the 8th local time to elect members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives and governors, a number of topical figures were elected.
According to the Associated Press and other American media, a candidate who publicly identified himself as a lesbian was elected governor for the first time in US history.
The protagonist is Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healy, a Democrat who was elected governor of Massachusetts.
She is also the first female governor of Massachusetts to be elected by election rather than succession to a term.
Governor Healy has pledged to expand vocational education, reduce childcare costs, modernize schools and protect the right to abortion.
In Maryland, Democratic nominee Wes Moore became the state's first black governor.
Moore, a Rhodes Scholar, former Afghan veteran, and former chief executive of the Robin Hood Foundation, a relief organization in New York, is the third black governor of the United States.
Although she had no political background, she received attention by beating well-known politicians in the intra-party primary, and she was endorsed by former President Barack Obama.
Arkansas has its first female governor.
Republican nominee Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who served as White House press secretary during the presidency of Donald Trump, defeated Democrat Chris Jones to become governor.
In particular, Sanders' father, Mike Huckabee, also served as governor of Arkansas from July 1996 to January 2007, setting another record for a woman to be elected governor in the same state.
In the 8th District of New Jersey House of Representatives race, Robert Menendez Jr., son of Senator Robert Menendez, Democrat, who chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, ran for the Democratic nomination and won.
This resulted in a senator father and a congressman son.
In Florida's 10th District, 25-year-old Democrat Maxwell Alejandro Frost became the first Generation Z to be elected to the House of Representatives.
In 2018, Frost worked to strengthen gun control at March for Our Lives, an organization of students who survived shootings at Parkland High School in Florida.
Vermont is the first state in history to have a female congressman.
Although Vermont is a region with strong progressive political colors, it is the only state among the 50 states in the United States that has not elected a woman to Congress.
Even the conservative Southern Mississippi elected its first female MP in 2018.
Vermont State Senator Becca Barint, now elected to the House of Representatives, also broke the record for being the state's first openly gay congressman.
Oklahoma has the first Native American senator in 100 years.
Congressman Mark Wayne Mulin, a Republican who won that day, is a Cherokee.
Prior to the bite, Democrat Robert Owen, a Cherokee, served as the state senator from 1907 to 1925.
Democrat Kathy Hocal, the current governor of New York, is the first female governor of New York to be elected.
Her original lieutenant governor, Hoquel, has been carrying out her resignation as governor, taking over the remainder of her term after former governor Andrew Cuomo stepped down over a sexual assault scandal.
In Pennsylvania, House of Representatives member Summer Lee was elected to the House of Representatives, making her the first black woman to represent Pennsylvania in the U.S. Congress.
In other House elections, Republican Anna Polina Luna became the first Mexican woman to be elected to Congress in Florida, and Delia Ramirez, of Guatemalan immigrant parents, became the first Latino congressman from Illinois.
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