From April 9-26, 2011, Nigeria held parliamentary, presidential and governorship elections. Unfortunately the Independent National Election Commission, the body that oversees the country’s public office elections, did not issue any data about the number of women registered to vote.
However, Toyin Ajao, a feminist blogger and Peace and Security Fellow of King’s College, London estimates that half or slightly over half of the 73.5 million registered voters were women. During the last parliamentary term, only 7.3% of the representatives in Nigeria’s upper and lower houses were women. In this year’s election, 200 out of 2400 (8.33%) candidates for the House of Representatives and 80 out of 720 (11.11%) candidates for the Senate were women.
For more information, please visit: FreetoRunWomeninPolitics
From April 9-26, 2011, Nigeria held parliamentary, presidential and governorship elections. Unfortunately the Independent National Election Commission, the body that oversees the country’s public office elections, did not issue any data about the number of women registered to vote.
However, Toyin Ajao, a feminist blogger and Peace and Security Fellow of King’s College, London estimates that half or slightly over half of the 73.5 million registered voters were women. During the last parliamentary term, only 7.3% of the representatives in Nigeria’s upper and lower houses were women. In this year’s election, 200 out of 2400 (8.33%) candidates for the House of Representatives and 80 out of 720 (11.11%) candidates for the Senate were women.
For more information, please visit: FreetoRunWomeninPolitics