The 2020 US elections have seen a record number of victorious LGBTQ+ candidates as over 220 have now been elected, with that number expected to rise as counting continues.
According to the LGBTQ Victory Fund, there were 574 LGBTQ+ candidates on the ballots, up from 432 since the last election.
This year’s pool of LGBTQ+ candidates was also more racially diverse than any previous election. Andrew Reynolds, a Princeton researcher studying LGBTQ+ political representation, told NBC News: “The really exciting thing about the election was not the increase [in LGBTQ+ candidates] – it was who is getting elected [i.e.