Electoral Persistence: Intersections of Gender, Race and Partisanship

• In Event: On Losing

Brief Overview

Using a new dataset of primary and general 2022 Congressional election losers, we examine how race, gender and partisanship shape candidates’ opportunities for success or failure, or how failure influences their electoral persistence.

Authors

• Julie Dolan, Macalester College

• Paru Shah, Rutgers University

• Elizabeth Ekstrand, Macalester College

• Maddie Collett, Macalester College