Sarah McBride is to become the first transgender state senator in the US, after declaring victory in Delaware.
She beat Republican Steve Washington to take over the seat from Democrat Harris McDowell, who is standing down.
Ms McBride, 30, has worked as the press secretary of LGBT advocacy group the Human Rights Campaign and as a trainee in the White House during the Obama administration.
She will now become the highest-ranking trans official in the country.
Elsewhere, Taylor Small, 26, will become Vermont’s first transgender state legislator, after winning the race to make it to the House of Representatives.
In New York, Ritchie Torres, 32, will become the first black gay member of Congress.
And he is expected to do so along with fellow New York candidate Mondaire Jones, whose race has not yet been called.
Meanwhile, Republican Madison Cawthorn, 25, won in North Carolina to become the first member of Congress born in the 1990s.
