Record number of women to stand as candidates in UK election
Source: Womens Agenda
A record number of female candidates are expected to stand in next month’s UK general election.
More than 1,100 women have registered as candidates across political divides, making up 34 per cent of the total number of candidates. This number marks a 5 per cent increase from 29 per cent in 2017.
While more women than ever are standing as political candidates in the UK at this election, 34 per cent remains a long way from gender parity.
Some political parties, most notably Labour, have increased their percentage of female candidates markedly, while others have barely increased their female representation since the last election in 2017.
In a first for a major political party in the UK, more than half of all Labour’s candidates are women. The party is backing a total of 631 candidates in the election, 333 are women, at total of 53 per cent. This is an 11 per cent increase from the last election in 2017, when 42 per cent of Labour candidates were women.
For the Conservatives, 190 of their 635 candidates are women, making up 30 per cent of their candidates, a very small 1 per cent increase from 2017.
Click here to read the full article published by Womens Agenda on 17 November 2019.
A record number of female candidates are expected to stand in next month’s UK general election.
More than 1,100 women have registered as candidates across political divides, making up 34 per cent of the total number of candidates. This number marks a 5 per cent increase from 29 per cent in 2017.
While more women than ever are standing as political candidates in the UK at this election, 34 per cent remains a long way from gender parity.
Some political parties, most notably Labour, have increased their percentage of female candidates markedly, while others have barely increased their female representation since the last election in 2017.
In a first for a major political party in the UK, more than half of all Labour’s candidates are women. The party is backing a total of 631 candidates in the election, 333 are women, at total of 53 per cent. This is an 11 per cent increase from the last election in 2017, when 42 per cent of Labour candidates were women.
For the Conservatives, 190 of their 635 candidates are women, making up 30 per cent of their candidates, a very small 1 per cent increase from 2017.
Click here to read the full article published by Womens Agenda on 17 November 2019.
