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Malta: Did gender quotas election punish women candidates?

Malta · Transnational · See the Malta profile

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Just four women were elected during the 2022 general election but a deeper analysis also shows that women contesting on the Labour ticket obtained almost 20,000 first-count votes, which compares very well with the 14,000 first preferences obtained in 2017. The newspaper article l

20000
Labour Party women's first-count votes, 2022 (2022)
14000
Labour Party women's first-count votes, 2017 (2017)
4
Women elected, 2022 (2022)
Malta: Did gender quotas election punish women candidates?

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Malta Today — website
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Political Power
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Competence development, Awareness-raising
Keywords
gender quotas, political elections, women participation, women elected

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A MaltaToday analysis of the 2022 general election examines whether Malta's gender-quota mechanism disadvantaged women candidates, noting only four women were elected despite women on the Labour ticket increasing their first-count vote total compared to 2017.

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