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Posted: 2020-11-04T21:49:13Z | Updated: 2020-12-07T16:55:40Z

A record number of Native candidates are heading to Congress after Tuesday nights election.

Six Indigenous candidates won their House races, which means the chamber will now have the most Native lawmakers ever serving at a time.

Four of them are returning members.

Reps. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) and Sharice Davids (D-Kan.) both won their second terms. They made history in their own right in 2018, as the first two Native women ever elected to Congress . They are members of Pueblo of Laguna and Ho-Chunk Nation, respectively.

Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) of Chickasaw Nation also won reelection on Tuesday, as did Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) of Cherokee Nation.

New members will include Republican Yvette Herrell, who unseated Democratic Rep. Xochitl Torres Small in New Mexicos 2nd Congressional District. Its the second time theyve competed for the seat; Herrell ran against Torres Small in 2018 and narrowly lost.

Herrell, a member of Cherokee Nation, previously served in the states House of Representatives from 2011 to 2019. President Donald Trump endorsed her in October.