Tuesday’s election was a historic one for women, who, come January, will hold 20 out of 100 seats in the U.S. Senate, the largest number ever. Tuesday’s election saw five new women elected to the Senate. In addition to Democrats Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts and Rep. Tammy Baldwin in Wisconsin, Democratic Rep. Mazie Hirono was elected in Hawaii, becoming the first Asian-American woman elected to the Senate, Hawaii’s first woman senator, the Senate’s first Buddhist and the first U.S. senator born in Japan — Fukushima, Japan. The other new women senators are Republican Nebraska state legislator Deb Fischer and former North Dakota Attorney General Heidi Heitkamp, a Democrat.