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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 is fielding the largest proportion of female election candidates of the biggest parties - at 41%, BBC analysis shows. | Labour is fielding the largest proportion of female election candidates of the biggest parties - at 41%, BBC analysis shows. |
This is lower than the 44% of women MPs Labour had in the last Parliament. | This is lower than the 44% of women MPs Labour had in the last Parliament. |
Women are standing for the Conservatives in 186 out of the 638 seats they are contesting - or 29%. | |
The SNP have women in 33% of seats they are contesting - 20 out of 59 seats. The Lib Dems have 191 female candidates out of 630 - 30%. | |
Labour is fielding 256 women out of 631 candidates. | |
A record 191 women were elected altogether in 2015 - around 30% of MPs. | |
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. | 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. |
General election: What you need to know | General election: What you need to know |
Labour's draft election manifesto leaked | Labour's draft election manifesto leaked |
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. | 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 only 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. | 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. |
Surprise election | Surprise election |
Just over 21% of the Conservative MPs elected in 2015-17 were women. | Just over 21% of the Conservative MPs elected in 2015-17 were women. |
Conservative peer Baroness Jenkin, co-founded the party's Women 2 Win - aimed at getting more Conservative women into Parliament - with Theresa May in 2005. | |
She told the BBC that, at the time, there were only 17 women Tory MPs - 9% of the parliamentary party. | |
While there was "a huge amount more to be done" she said they had succeeded in boosting numbers, incrementally, without using all-women shortlists. | |
"No party has done more in improving the numbers so significantly over the past 10 years." | |
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 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. | 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. |