29 April 2024 Data from Fawcett and Democracy Club shows that 34% of local election candidates are women. Even more starkly, just 26% of police and crime commissioner candidates and 27% of mayoral candidates are women. Ahead of the local elections on 2nd May 2024, new data from the Fawcett Society and Democracy club shows that just 34% of candidates are women. This reflects a worrying lack of progress since we last released these figures in 2021, when 33% of candidates who stood were women, a...
