More than half of Democratic women running for governor in 2022 had held elective office before
Just more than one-third of Democratic men running for governor had been elected to another office before. Republican women were also more likely than Republican men to have held office before seeking a governorship in 2022.
A bar chart showing the percentages of men and women from both parties who were running for governor in 2022 who had held elective office before their run.
