Record number of women to stand in general election
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-11-16
A record number of women are set to stand in next month's general election.Provisional analysis by the PA news agency shows that 1,120 female candidates have registered — 34% of the total.This is the highest proportion of women candidates in a general election in history, up from 29% in 2017 and 26% in 2015.More than half of all Labour's candidates are women — a first for a major political party in the UK.(PA Graphics)By contrast, about three in 10 of those standing for the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats are women.The overall number of candidates in December's poll is currently 3,322.This is a…
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