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Caron Lindsay

What the 2015 Sex and Power report has to say about the Liberal Democrats

By Caron Lindsay | Fri 16th October 2015 - 10:25 am

The 2015 Sex and Power report published by the Counting Women In coalition came out this week. It looks in detail at the number of women candidates put forward by each party and the number of MPs elected.

It’s not fun to read if you’re a Liberal Democrat for obvious reasons. It’s not just that we have an all white middle aged male party in the Commons, it’s that we’re not making nearly enough progress to redress the imbalance. The proportion of women in our target seats should be much higher than 50/50 if we are serious about improving gender balance.

What’s particularly galling is a graph that shows that our number of women MPs elected peaked in 1987 and we’ve been going yo-yoing ever since at a much lower level.

Lib Dem graph from Sex and Power Report 2015

This is what the report had to say about us:

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