Legislature Demographics

What is happening? We’ve talked about the women majority Legislatures in Nevada and Colorado. Plus Arizona that’s at 47.3% women. A lot of us are in Texas, where he Dallas Morning News describes the 2023 Texas Legislature as ” much older and more male-dominated than the state’s population overall.” The 2023 average age of a Texas legislator: 57 years. The average age in 2021: 54 years. The average age of a Texas Senator: 60 years. There remains twice as many men than women in the Texas Legislature.

Governing | Texas’ 2023 Legislature Will Be Disproportionately Old and Male