Every Black member of the incoming 120th Congress — Senate, House, and non-voting delegates — plus the federal races still being decided. Tracked on bills, floor votes, and committee action. No state officers in here.
58 House + 6 Senate + 2 delegates elected. Plus 4 still deciding / watchlist.
Every Black state official in all 50 states — governors, statewide and district executives, and state legislators. They run state government, not Congress: they issue orders, run agencies, file lawsuits, set state budgets, pass state laws, and vote on state dockets. Organized strictly by state, one card per state, every state in the same format — no state featured above another. Executives are named; legislators are counted by chamber. Roster researched Nov 8, 2026.
39 executives + 894 legislators, across all 50 states. Five Black governors at once — a first.
39 statewide & district executives + 894 state legislators — plus Delaware's separately elected State Auditor, Lydia York, noted on Delaware's card.
Five Black governors serve at the same time for the first time in history: Wes Moore (MD), Keisha Lance Bottoms (GA), Byron Donalds (FL), Aaron Ford (NV), David Crowley (WI).
Utah, Montana, Wyoming, and North Dakota have no Black state officials in this roster. Their cards stand below at zero, like every other state.
All results are unofficial until each state finishes counting and certifies its own results.
80+ verified at the state level — against 8 in Congress. Same rule as the federal side: a person is labeled only from public, sourced facts, with the country named — never from a name, a photo, or a guess. The largest groups:
Federal officials sit in Congress and make federal law. State officials run state government — agencies, budgets, rates, and cases in their own state. Different jobs, different records, different ledgers.
Two ledgers. Kept separate. Congress is federal. Governors, attorneys general, and state commissioners are state. They do different jobs, hold different powers, and leave different records — so this site no longer mixes them on one roster.
Federal Ledger — 66 elected: 58 House members, 6 senators, and 2 delegates in the incoming 120th Congress, plus the federal races still being decided, tracked separately. State Ledger — 933 tracked: Black state officials in all 50 states — 39 statewide and district executives plus 894 state legislators, with Delaware's separately elected State Auditor noted on Delaware's card. Two totals, two ledgers — never added together into one headline number.
For each person: what they ran on, a promise tracker with a plain status, and a dated record — bills and votes for Congress, orders, agency actions, and dockets for state offices. No status without a source.
Results are unofficial until each state certifies. Georgia certifies by Nov 20, 2026. Mississippi counties certify by Nov 13. Louisiana's last seat is decided Dec 12.
The House fell from 61 to 58 Black members even as five brand-new seats were won. The Senate rises to a record six, possibly seven (Scott Colom, MS, leads by 2,574). Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08) is in line to become the first Black Speaker.
Somalia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Liberia, Eritrea, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Trinidad & Tobago. Countries named, sources checked. Nigeria: none — see Method.
Sen. Tim Scott (SC). All four Black House Republicans left — three ran for higher office, one district was redrawn.
Pending races first, then transitions and appointments, then bills and votes (federal) and orders, dockets, and filings (state) as terms begin.
Power is a promise too. These are the Black officials holding the gavels — and what each gavel controls.
Speaker of the House
Hakeem Jeffries
NY-08 · U.S. House · New York
Runs the whole House: the floor, the calendar, and who sits on which committee.
Selections finalize when the House organizes in January 2027. These four are the senior Democrats in line for each gavel.
Financial Services
Maxine Waters
CA-43
Banks, Wall Street, and housing finance.
Homeland Security
Bennie Thompson
MS-02
The border, FEMA, the Secret Service, and the TSA.
Foreign Affairs
Gregory Meeks
NY-05
Foreign policy, the State Department, and foreign aid.
Education and the Workforce
Bobby Scott
VA-03
Schools, labor law, and workplace rules.
Congressional Black Caucus — Chair
Yvette Clarke
NY-09
Leads the 60-plus member Black Caucus bloc — not a committee, but real voting power.
The Senate hands out its gavels when it organizes in January 2027 — and one seat (Mississippi) is still uncalled. Tim Scott (SC) chaired Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs under the Republican majority and is expected to be its top Republican (Ranking Member). Every chair and assignment for Senators Booker, Warnock, Alsobrooks, Blunt Rochester and Stratton lands here as it’s decided.
House leadership elections: Nov 18–19, 2026 · Committee assignments for all members, including the 13 newcomers: January 2027 · This page updates as each gavel is handed out.
Newest first — and every item is tagged FEDERAL or STATE, so the two records never blur. Federal items are bills and votes; state items are orders, agency actions, dockets, and cases. Each item links to its source on the person's page in their own ledger.
Co-chairs include Tyler Perry, Arthur Blank, Delta executive Richard Cox, Jason Carter, and former Rep. Jane Kidd. She has spoken with Gov. Kemp, who offered a smooth transition.
Her stated mandate for the new term: hold the administration accountable, end “Trump's reckless war,” stop “Trump's tariff taxes,” and make life more affordable.
A formal look at what families can afford and how the grid costs of data centers get split. First major test for the incoming District 5 commissioner, who takes office Jan 1.
On WSB-TV: the commissioner cannot literally freeze rates, but can delay or deny unjustified hikes and fine insurers for delays and denials. Early route to lower premiums: more competition.
Thurmond held the job 1999–2011 — the clearest transition move so far among the new state officers.
Mississippi Senate: Scott Colom leads by 2,574 votes with certification due Nov 13. Louisiana LA-06: Chauna Banks finished first and goes to a Dec 12 runoff as the underdog in a redrawn district.
The honesty is the credibility. Labels come only from public sources — never from a name, a photo, or a guess.
If a source later shows different facts, the label is corrected — and the correction is noted.
8 verified immigrant-background House members: Omar (Somalia), Kiros (Ethiopia), Boafo & Amo (Ghana — Amo's mother from Liberia), Neguse (Eritrea), Clarke (Jamaica), Avila Chevalier (Dominican Republic), Horsford (mother, Trinidad & Tobago).
Nigeria: nobody. No Nigerian-background member is in the incoming Congress. Nigerian-American winners this year were state and local — they're kept as a pipeline watch list, not counted here.
All 6 senators check out as Black Americans in their public biographies.
The two ledgers track different records, on purpose. Federal Ledger: bills, floor votes, and committee action in Congress. State Ledger: orders and budgets for a governor, state bills and votes for a state legislator, dockets and votes for the PSC, filings for an attorney general. Each person's page tracks the record their job actually produces — in their own ledger.