Women have served in the United States House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber, since the 1916 election of Republican Jeannette Rankin from Montana, the first woman in Congress. In total, 352 women have been U.S. representatives and seven more women have been non-voting delegates. As of September 13, 2022, there are 123 women in the U.S. House of Representatives (not counting four female non-voting delegates), making women 27.9% of the total. Of the 359 women who have served in the House, 235 have been Democrats (including four from U.S. territories and the District of Columbia) and 124 have been Republicans (including three from U.S. territories, including pre-statehood Hawaii). One woman has been Speaker of the Ho