Dr Adrian Kavanagh tweetz:
Female Local Election Candidates: There’s a notable “geography” to female candidacy levels across the Republic of Ireland, with *higher levels in Dublin and more urban areas *lower levels in rural Ireland but particularly in the more western counties #LE19
Female candidates contesting the 2019 Local Elections (Adrian Kavanagh)
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Women must not want the job. It’s a €100 outlay to put your name on the ballot.
Please, Tom, do tell us what else women do and don’t want.
When is the book coming out?
Don’t trouble yourself there millie, tom will take care of everything for you!
This makes for interesting reading. It’s also very interesting when you examine the percentage of female candidates by party affiliation.
By my reckoning:
Indepenent/Non-Party & Others* – 556 candidates, 108 female (19.4%)
Fianna Fáil – 415 candidates, 86 female (20.7%)
Fine Gael – 404 candidates, 116 female (28.7%)
Sinn Féin – 230 candidates, 76 female (33.0%)
Labour – 111 candidates, 44 female (39.6%)
Green Party – 82 candidates, 36 female (43.9%)
Solidarity/People-Before Profit – 66 candidates, 37 female (56.1%)
Social Democrats – 58 candidates, 32 female (55.2%)
Aontú – 53 candidates, 16 female (30.2%)
*Others includes Independents for Change, Direct Democracy Ireland, Éirígí, Housing Rights & Reform Alliance, Renua, Workers Party, and other smaller parties and groups.
thanks for that.
I have a breakdown for the smaller parties too, but it’s less reliable. For example, a party with only 2 candidates (such as United People in Drogheda), either has 100%, 50% or 0% female representation, so it’s unfair to single them out that way.
(They have 0% female representation, by the way).
There’s a “United People in Drogheda” party?
Or d’ya mean “United People” a party in Drogheda
Roscommon making history again :D
Always the bold one in the class.
Thats great Adrian, now do a more useful based on LINEAGE.
How many would need to be shown how to use a swing, and require supervision while on one? The ones that wouldn’t would get my vote.
Maria Bailey wouldn’t get a vote from me. Suing a hotel, and reported in The Herald………
“In circuit court proceedings, she accused the hotel of negligence, saying the swing was “unsupervised” and there were no signs to instruct patrons how to safely use it.”
Thats hilarious. What a waste of everyone’s time, she needs to accept some personal responsibility.