For the first time in U.S. history, multiple elected Black governors will serve at the same time after five wins in elections across the country.

They are Democrat Wes Moore, who won re-election in Maryland, Republican Rep. Byron Donalds in Florida, Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms in Georgia, Democrat David Crowley in Wisconsin and Democrat Aaron Ford in Nevada.

Before those wins, the only elected Black governors in U.S. history had been Moore; Deval Patrick, a Democrat who was elected Massachusetts’ governor in 2006; and Doug Wilder, a Democrat who was elected Virginia’s governor in 1989. None served simultaneously.

Bottoms, the former mayor of Atlanta, overcame an enormous spending disadvantage to defeat Republican Rick Jackson, a wealthy healthcare executive who pumped more than $100 million of his own money into his campaign. She is the first woman and the first Black person to be elected governor of Georgia, and will be the first Black female governor in U.S.…