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General election 2017: Labour selects most female candidates | General election 2017: Labour selects most female candidates |
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Labour has the largest proportion of women standing in the general election out of the main parties - 40.6% of its 631 candidates, BBC analysis shows. | Labour has the largest proportion of women standing in the general election out of the main parties - 40.6% of its 631 candidates, BBC analysis shows. |
This is a lower proportion of women than Labour had in the last Parliament, where 44% of its MPs were female. | This is a lower proportion of women than Labour had in the last Parliament, where 44% of its MPs were female. |
The Conservatives are fielding 26.1% female candidates this time round, with the SNP on 33.4% and the Lib Dems on 30.3%. | The Conservatives are fielding 26.1% female candidates this time round, with the SNP on 33.4% and the Lib Dems on 30.3%. |
In all, 191 out of 630 seats will be contested by women, or 30.3%. | In all, 191 out of 630 seats will be contested by women, or 30.3%. |
A record 191 women were elected - around 30% of MPs - in 2015, but men still outnumbered them more than two to one. | |
Earlier this year, the election of Tory Trudy Harrison in Copeland took the number of women elected altogether in the past 100 years to 456 - roughly the same as the total number of male MPs in the 2015-2017 Parliament. | |
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MPs recommended in January that political parties should be fined if they failed to ensure at least 45% of their general election candidates were female. | |
The Women and Equalities Committee said the fact that 30% of current MPs were women represented a "serious democratic deficit", for "no good reason" and called for a change in the law after the next general election if that figure did not increase "significantly". | |
Both the Conservatives and Lib Dems are fielding a higher proportion of female candidates in the 2017 general election than they had as MPs in the last parliament. | |
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The Tories are putting forward 132 women out of 506 candidates. Just over 21% of their MPs in 2015-17 were women. | |
Conservative MP Maria Miller, who chaired the Women and Equalities Committee in the last Parliament, told the World at One: "The Conservative Party has made significant progress, particularly under Theresa May and the the work she's done with the Women2Win campaign." | Conservative MP Maria Miller, who chaired the Women and Equalities Committee in the last Parliament, told the World at One: "The Conservative Party has made significant progress, particularly under Theresa May and the the work she's done with the Women2Win campaign." |
Mrs May was a founder of the campaign, which aims to increase the representation of women in the party, along with Tory peer Baroness Jenkin. | Mrs May was a founder of the campaign, which aims to increase the representation of women in the party, along with Tory peer Baroness Jenkin. |
The SNP is fielding 20 women out of 59 SNP candidates in Scottish seats, or 33.4%. In 2015, the SNP had 36 male MPs and 20 women (35.7%). | The SNP is fielding 20 women out of 59 SNP candidates in Scottish seats, or 33.4%. In 2015, the SNP had 36 male MPs and 20 women (35.7%). |
The SNP's Kirsty Blackman told the BBC that the surprise timing of the election had meant "less time to reach out to candidates from non-traditional backgrounds". | The SNP's Kirsty Blackman told the BBC that the surprise timing of the election had meant "less time to reach out to candidates from non-traditional backgrounds". |
The Lib Dems lost all their female MPs in their near-wipeout in the 2015 election. | |
The party was reduced to eight male MPs, though Sarah Olney's victory in last year's by-election in Richmond Park later gave them back one female MP. | |