Democrats celebrate the results of the midterm elections, why?
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This Wednesday the 118th Congress of the United States takes office after the midterm elections in November 2022 that gave the Democrats a slight advantage in the Senate and a majority, also slight, to the Republicans in the House of Representatives.
The new Congress will begin work this 2023 and will end in January 2025, right at the end of President Joe Biden's term, which ends in 2024.
This is what the US Congress will look like for the 2023-2025 cycle.
Democrats lead the Senate
Democrats have Control of the Senate, having won 51 seats in a close midterm election.
Republicans have 49 seats.
After winning a 50-seat tie in preliminary results in mid-November, a runoff was required in Georgia, pitting Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock against Republican challenger Herschel Walker.
In the end Warnock won the election, giving the Democrats a very slight victory.
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The only change of color that the Democrats achieved in the Senate
Only one Senate seat switched parties in the midterms.
It happened in Pennsylvania, where Democratic Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman, who campaigned while recovering from a stroke in May, defeated Republican Mehmet Oz, the celebrity doctor backed by former President Donald Trump.
Fatterman is one of the 51 Democratic senators for this new term.
Republicans will lead the House of Representatives
The Republicans were left with control of the House of Representatives with 222 seats versus 213 for the Democrats.
An expected "red tide" did not happen, but they got the most on this chamber.
In the previous Congress, which was elected in 2021, the Democrats won 222 seats vs.
211 from the Republicans.
A special election will be necessary in Virginia
Rep. Donald McEachin, D-Va., died Nov. 28 after being the winner to serve another term earlier in the month.
His position will be vacant when the new Congress begins in 2023 and a special election will be held to fill the position.
A record number of women
For the 118th Congress that is installed this January 3, there is a record number of women who will serve in both the House and the Senate of the United States.
But this figure is only two numbers higher than in the current congress.
The 149 women who will serve in the 118th US Congress will expand the ranks of female representation by just two members over the record set by the current Congress.
Women will break an overall record in the House, with 124 of them taking office on January 3.
In addition, there will also be a record number of Black and Latina women in this Congress.
There will be four more Latinas in the House for a total of 18, the most in US Legislative history, and one more black woman, bringing the total from 26 to 27.
More than half of the 22 women congressmen entering the House for the first time are women of color, showing the growing diversity of that chamber.
Republican Katie Britt will be Alabama's first female senator elected, CNN projects, winning an open race to succeed her former boss, retiring Republican Sen. Richard Shelby.
Democrat Summer Lee will be the first black woman elected to Congress from Pennsylvania, CNN projects, winning the race for the state's 12th congressional district.
A record number of Hispanics arrive in Congress
This Congress that begins in 2023 will have the largest number of representatives of Latino origin in history.
The six senators of Latino origin who have been elected to date remain in the US Senate: Republicans Marco Rubio (Florida) and Ted Cruz (Texas), as well as Democrats Catherine Cortez Masto (Nevada), Alex Padilla (California) , Ben Ray Lujan (New Mexico) and Robert Menéndez (New Jersey), according to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, NALEO.
As for the House of Representatives, congressmen of Latino origin increased from 38 in the last Congress, to 47 as of 2023, according to NALEO.
For this Congress there will be 35 Latino Democrats and 12 Republicans who will be in office.
In the 117th Congress, 28 Democrats of Latino origin and 10 Republicans were elected, according to NALEO.
The number of Latinas who were elected to the US House of Representatives increased by 4: going to 18 in 2023 vs.
14 in 2019.
The 2022 election also featured the election of the first Latinas to represent Colorado, Illinois, and Oregon in Congress.
Democrat Alex Padilla will be the first Latino senator elected from California, winning a special election for the remainder of Kamala Harris' term, as well as an election for a full six-year term.
Padilla, the son of Mexican immigrant parents, was appointed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom to fill the position Harris vacated when she became vice president.
Democrat Robert Garcia was elected as the first LGBTQ immigrant to Congress.
The first congressman of Generation Z
Maxwell Frost participates in the Gay Pride Parade in Orlando on October 15. (Giorgio Viera/AFP/Getty Images)
Democrat Maxwell Alejandro Frost, a 25-year-old community leader, was elected to Congress, becoming the first member of Generation Z to hold a seat.
He is also the first black of Cuban origin elected to Congress.
generational change
Several veteran congressmen will say goodbye to Congress in 2023.
Democratic leaders Steny Hoyer, 83, as well as former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Jim Clyburn, both 82, represent a generational change for the Democratic Party in the House.
House Democratic Leaders, front row from left, Steny Hoyer, Jim Clyburn and Nancy Pelosi walk out of the West Wing of the White House in Washington, DC on October 15, 2013. (Credit: Mark Wilson/ Getty Images)
House Democrats chose current Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries of New York, 52, to replace Pelosi as the top Democrat in the House of Representatives.
Massachusetts Rep. Katherine Clark, 59, will serve as minority leader, and California Rep. Peter Aguilar, 43, will lead the caucus.
All of them are a generation younger than their predecessors.
However, octogenarians are still expected to have a presence in the incoming Congress.
Clyburn will play a slightly downgraded leadership role as assistant to the leader (the party's No. 4 job), while Pelosi was recently designated "spokesperson emeritus."
Hoyer said she looks forward to continuing to advise new Democratic leaders.
-- With reporting from CNN's Ethan Cohen, Liz Stark, Adam Levy, Janie Boschma, Simone Pathe, Maeve Reston, Renée Rigdon, Gregory Krieg, Daniella Diaz, Sam Fossum and Jack Forrest.
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