Eleven days after Americans cast their ballots in the midterm elections, Republican candidate Young Kim — aiming to become the first Korean-American woman elected to Congress — was defeated in a tight Southern California race for the U.S. House of Representatives, according to the Associated Press.
Although she took the lead on election day, mail-in ballots counted in the weeks following favored Kim's Democratic opponent Gil Cisneros in California's 39th district, which includes portions of Los Angeles, Orange and San Bernardino counties.
The district's demographics are split almost evenly among people who identify as White, Asian and Latino, according to last year's U.S. census.