The youngest Pope in history was Pope Benedict IX, who was either 11 or 20 years old when he was elected in 1032. He is also the only person to have been the Pope more than once.
100 Mind-Blowing Elected Facts
A woman was elected to the House of Representatives four years before women even won the right to vote.
A woman was elected to Congress before women’s suffrage. American women were given the right to vote in 1920, but Jeanette Rankin became the first woman in the U.S. federal office in 1916.
Sir Keir Starmer has the most diverse Parliament the UK has ever seen, in terms of race and gender. The BBC say that for the first time in parliamentary history, the proportion of women elected is more than 40%. Meanwhile, the proportion of MPs from ethnic-minority backgrounds is now a record 14%.
The youngest Pope elected was 11 years old. Pope Benedict IX was one of the most controversial Popes – people aren’t even sure when he was elected as the Pope. However, the choices were 20, 11, or 12. If that were true, he was the youngest Pope.
President Bush was re-elected by less than 31% of all eligible voters in the United States. Only 60.7 per cent of eligible voters participated in the U.S. presidential election of 2004. It was the highest percentage in 36 years, but more than 78 million people did not vote.
Jeannette Rankin was elected to the House of Representatives four years before women had won the right to vote.
Mexico’s presidential palace is 14 times larger than the White House and started allowing visitors for the first time in 2018. From 1935 to 2018, the Los Pinos presidential palace was the official place of residence for Mexico’s presidents and was closed off to any who weren’t expressly invited. This changed in 2018 when Andres Manuel López Obrador was elected the Mexican President, winning his campaign on the back of promises to fight corruption. As a gesture of goodwill, he chose not to move into the palace, instead simply living in a small apartment in Mexico City’s central district. To give you an idea of what the Mexican president gave up, the presidential palace covers 603,000 square feet (56,000 square meters).