Here are the candidates who made history in Tuesday's midterms

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/08/candidates-made-history-firsts-midterms/

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Some candidates didn’t just win on Tuesday, they also broke barriers.

Those victories included the first female governors elected in Arkansas and Massachusetts; the first Black person to be elected governor of Maryland; and the first member of Gen Z to be elected to Congress.

In some ways, this election had already made history for the diversity of candidates running. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people ran for office in all 50 states for the first time, according to the LGBTQ Victory Fund. The number of such candidates on the ballot also increased 18 percent from 2020, it said, many of them galvanized by a wave of measures in Republican-led states attacking the community.

This cycle also set records for the number of women running for governor, said Debbie Walsh, director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. But the same was not true of the Senate and the House, where female candidates in the general election fell short of the highs reached in 2018 and 2020, respectively.

A Gen Z congressperson, Cherokee Senator, and Vermont is the last US state to send a woman to Washington.

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1. Here's hoping Adam Frisch can make history too

and show that MAGAs don't always win.