274 LGBTQ Candidates Win Their Elections Across the Nation

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : While the focus of Proposal 1 was primarily on reproductive health care, opponents of the proposal attempted to defeat it by campaigning against the inclusion of sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes.
56% : New York's state constitution will now expressly prohibit discrimination based on ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, and sex, including sexual orientation, gender identity, and pregnancy.
44% : "As an out lesbian Latina, I will rest better at night knowing that Emily Randall will be fighting for LGBTQ+ equality, racial justice, immigration reform and reproductive freedom in Congress," Janelle Perez, the executive director of LPAC said.
43% : By similar margins, voters in Colorado and Hawaii also voted to remove language from their state constitutions expressly banning same-sex nuptials.
41% : In California, voters approved Proposition 3, which repealed the now-unenforceable ban on same-sex marriage known as Proposition 8.

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