Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester easily won election to the U.S. Senate, making her the first woman and first Black person to represent Delaware in the chamber, the Associated Press projected just after the polls closed.

Delaware’s U.S. Senate race stands to be a historic one, as U.S. Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester is poised to become the state’s first Black person and first woman U.S. Senator. If elected, she’ll be the fourth-ever Black woman to sit in the U.

Lisa Blunt Rochester defeated Republican Eric Hansen in Delaware’s U.S. Senate race on Tuesday.Blunt Rochester will become the first woman and first Black person to represent Delaware in the Senate. Only three other Black women have served in the Senate,

Blunt Rochester will now become the first Black Delawarean and the first woman to represent the First State in the U.S. Senate.