Cato and Glimmer. Glimmer comes to District 1 and has been training for her entire life to win the Hunger Games. At age 17, she obviously volunteers for the 74th Games and travels with her district partner Marvel to the Capitol.
Quick Answer. The number of Democrats serving in the U.S. House of Representatives changes with each election cycle, but as of April 2014, only 199 Democrats hold elected office in this Congressional chamber. Democrats are the minority party out of 435 members.
Most of the racial, gender and religious diversity will be represented by Democratic lawmakers in the House and Senate, even though the party is the minority of both chambers. The Congress will still be overwhelmingly white and male compared to the overall population. And the number of women serving in the House and Senate is flat. Fourteen women won election for the first time this month, but those gains will be offset by the number of female lawmakers who are leaving at the end of this year. Hereâs a look at the demographics of the new Congress. WOMEN. The number of women will stay the same in the new Congress, at a total of 104 members, or 19 percent. Thatâs far less than the overall American population, which is 50 percent female. Female representation in the House will drop slightly.