What Went Down In Elections In Minnesota, Wisconsin, Vermont And Connecticut

Amelia, Vermont has essentially had the fewest opportunities to elect a woman to Congress in recent decades. It’s not alone in having just one House seat, but it’s had the fewest different people fill its two Senate seats and one House seat of any state (dating back to the 87th Congress, the first to include Alaska and Hawaii joined) — just nine different officeholders in that time span. It’s not easy to beat an incumbent, and many times the lone House member has stepped up to become a senator. Vermont has also usually been a fairly safe state, either for Republicans up until the 1970s or the Democrats since the 1990s.