Democracy before equality?

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How many candidates were there in your constituency? We had six. Every single one of them a man.

I thought things would have moved on by 2024, but it seems not.

8 candidates to vote for and 5 of them are women.

I don't think that's representative of most constituencies!

And for me, equality means that in some seats, it'll be mostly men + in others, mostly women :)

5 candidates, 2 are women.
It will most likely be a woman (Has been a female Conservative looking like will be a Labour female).

This cannot be legislated for. If we want more female candidates, more females have to put their hat into the ring. If your belief is that there is a reason that this doesn't happen, that would be a good discussion.

At least they weren't all white men, so that was something, at any rate.

I can't help wondering whether there are any constituencies where all the candidates are women.

I hadn't noticed but yeah, seven candidates but all male. Four are white and they vary from mid 20s to um... older. But every single one is male (and replacing a woman who has retired).

7 men, 1 woman

Don't see how it's anyone's fault, just how it is. And remember 2 of the Tories last 4 PMs were women.

The recently re-drew the constituency boundaries round here and we are now in a different one. I just looked at the candidates for the constituency were were in previously. 7 candidates and hooray! A woman is among them.

As long as they know what they're doing, what's between their legs is immaterial.

How could I forget? 💩💩

But I digress... that isn't the point of the thread. Are fewer women than men interested in politics, or is it simply that the local parties tend to favour male candidates?

7 candidates here: 2 women, 5 men.

4 women and 2 men.

I'd say fewer women are interested. Must be boring as hell!

7 candidates. 4 women, 3 men. Both the main parties were fielding women.

Well said.

Around a third of candidates are women, pretty much the same as in 2019 (34% then, 32% now). 47% of labour candidates are women, 31% of conservative ones are.

news.sky.com/story/general-election-2024-analysis-of-resigning-mps-reveals-upcoming-demographic-shift-in-parliament-13157090

Ha. I was about to say the opposite. Local Labour politics has certainly been through a vicious few years. Infiltration by momentum and all that came with that. I think those aggressive beardy types don't create an environment conducive to women thriving.

But it's probably multi-factorial TBF.

Seven or eight candidates - some men, some women. TBH I only looked at the two who had any chance of getting in.

It'll be one of these two: Sitting MP - white woman, main contender Asian woman.

We actually had a female MP last time, she did precious little of any note then left. She was best off out of it.

Fair enough, but by the law of averages one wouldn't expect a 6 / 0 split.

How come that all six different political parties in one constituency managed to be so consistent in their 100% male choice of candidates? Jobs for the boys, I reckon.

We had Nadine Dorries!!!

Imagine how pleased we were to see the back of her...

7 candidates, 5 women 2 men (one of those a Reform candidate who was already kicked out of the party for being racist).

The Reform candidate being kicked out was a given. The party has to play the game.

Yes I agree, I’m sure his racist comments represented the party‘s (the company’s) views he just wasn’t meant to be stupid enough to air them. I was surprised he was still on the ballot as representing Reform but must have been too late to remove him.

Six candidates and four were women.