A historic wave of elected women and more women voters also decided the results of the elections held on Tuesday, November 4, from Virginia to California.

The political action committee of the Feminist Majority organization highlighted, in a press release sent to La Opinion, the electoral victories of the Democratic candidates in Virginia and New Jersey Jersey.

Women's Vote and Women Elected in Virginia

In Virginia, Democratic candidate Abigail Spanberger is now the first female governor in the state's 236-year history.

With a campaign that reflected a deep commitment to defending reproductive rights, advancing equality, and governance fully centered on women's lives, 82% of women aged 18 to 29 in Virginia voted for Spanberger.

Polls predicted a close race to maintain a feminist majority in the Virginia House of Delegates.

The election results showed a new majority that grew from 51 to at least 64 seats, according to projections: the largest Democratic majority in decades. Democratic candidates swept the races for all three state offices and also expanded their power in the Virginia House of Delegates, reversing Republican gains. Democrats took control of all three state offices and both houses of the General Assembly in Virginia. In New Jersey, voters also elected a woman governor. Democratic candidate Mikie Sherrill defeated Republican Jack Ciattarelli in the race to replace Democrat Phil Murphy as governor of New Jersey. Sherrill, who will be sworn in next January, will become the second woman to hold the governorship of New Jersey. Christine Todd Whitman, who was governor from 1994 to 2001, was the first. New Jersey voters decided in favor of reproductive freedom.Public education and equal opportunity were part of Sherrill's campaign, who maintained that her focus on affordability, on people's lives, on the future of their children, were decisive in her victory, in an interview on PBS's Morning Edition.

Women, especially young women and suburban voters, drove record turnout and helped secure a strong majority in favor of abortion rights and equality.

In the New Jersey General Assembly, the Democratic Party won a supermajority.

In Pennsylvania, voters decided to keep Democratic judges

In Pennsylvania, voters granted new 10-year terms to three Democratic justices of the state Supreme Court, following a multimillion-dollar election campaign spearheaded by conservative billionaire Jeff Yass, who sought to influence state court policy with Republican judges.

Democratic justices also won special elections for a seat on the Pennsylvania Superior Court and another in the Commonwealth Court.

In New York, a majority of women voted for Mamdani

In New York City, female voters chose universal childcare, one of the three pillars that propelled Zohran Mamdani's unexpected candidacy, and even chanted this idea during his victory speech.

The victory of candidate Zohran Mamdani in the New York City mayoral election will make him the city's first Muslim and South Asian mayor.

They also overwhelmingly rejected Andrew Cuomo, a candidate who, according to the Department of Justice, sexually harassed 13 women during his tenure as governor.

In California, support for Proposition 50 was massive

The Democratic Party in California continued its trend of votes in favor, following the approval by a majority of California voters of Proposition 50, which authorizes the temporary redrawing of the state's congressional districts to add Democratic-leaning districts.

The new district boundaries approved under Proposition 50 will remain in effect until the 2030 elections, after which the citizens' commission will resume redistricting responsibilities.

Democratic Wave in Other Local Elections

In numerous local elections across the country, Democrats celebrated victories that will transform their communities, such as winning all three city council seats in Georgetown, South Carolina, and defeating the last Republican council member in Orlando, Florida,and the recapture of mayoralties in Connecticut.

For the first time in half a century, Democrats control the Onondaga County Legislature, which includes Syracuse, New York.

In addition, a Charlotte, North Carolina, city council seat changed parties for the first time since 1999.

“These results should settle the long-standing question of eligibility, particularly for senior executive positions. For too long, female candidates have had to prove both that they can win and that they should win. A double whammy that men don’t have to fight,” said Debbie Walsh, director of CAWP.

In New Jersey and Virginia, voters have sent a clear message: We are ready for women to lead.

Debbie Walsh – Director of CAWP

How women voted in the November 4 election

Women have registered and voted in greater numbers than men in every presidential election since 1980, and the difference in turnout between women and men has widened slightly in each successive presidential election between 1980 and 2008, according to the Rutgers Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) at the State University of New Jersey.

The Rutgers Center for American Women and Politics has the record through 2024, when there were 91.3 million registered women voters and 82.6 million registered men; showing that the gender gap in the number of registered voters was 8.7 million.

The Rutgers Center for American Women and Politics also maintains a record of the results for female candidates in the 2025 elections, which can be viewed in English here.

The AP Voter Poll, a broad survey of more than 17,000 voters in New Jersey, Virginia, California, and New York City on November 4, explains who voted in each election and their views on the most important issues in their state.

The results of the poll, published by The Associated Press, revealed that young women were more inclined to support Democrats in the gubernatorial elections.

Approximately 8 in 10 women under 30 supported Sherrill in New Jersey, compared with just over half of men under 30.

The situation was similar in Virginia, where approximately Eight out of ten women under 30 voted for Spanberger, and around six out of ten men under 30 did. Gender differences were also observed among older voters, although not as pronounced. Just over half of the women aged 65 and over, for example,They supported Sherrill, compared to approximately 4 out of 10 men aged 65 and over.