When Suzanne Bonamici was elected to represent Oregon’s First Congressional District in 2012, she was the only woman in the state’s delegation, DC bound with six male colleagues. And so it remained for 10 years. But finally, the future is female—or female-er, at least. This year, with her own reelection pretty well a foregone conclusion, Bonamici will be joined by at least one more woman—Lori Chavez-DeRemer and Jamie McLeod-Skinner (at left and right, above) are the two in contention for the Fifth District seat. And if the new Sixth District’s Andrea Salinas and Fourth District’s Val Hoyle (second and third from left) prevail as well, the balance would flip to half female.
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