Roughly 9 Out Of 10 Black Women Voted For Democrats This Election

LOADING ERROR LOADING Women played a critical role in President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris winning the White House, but one group in particular stands out. Approximately nine in 10 Black women who voted cast ballots for Democrats, according to a report from the Center for American Women and Politics, a part of Rutgers University’s Eagleton Institute of Politics. “Black women have been the most reliable group of voters, at least if you look at voters by race and gender, over time,” said Kelly Dittmar, CAWP’s director of research. But we know that’s not the calculation, and women have different definitions and criteria for what they deem to be misogynistic.” The high turnout of Black women voters for Democrats is especially notable because it helped elect Harris, the first Black and first South Asian American woman to serve in the White House. In one poignant moment, Harris thanked her late mother, who was South Asian, and all of the other women “who fought and sacrificed so much for equality, liberty, and justice for all, including the Black women, who are too often overlooked, but so often prove that they are the backbone of our democracy.” Biden won 306 electoral votes, to 232 for Trump.