'A long way to go': One-third of NSW election candidates are women l EstherHjHan
analysis of all 935 candidates in Saturday's election shows 34 per cent vying for a seat in the Legislative Assembly and 37 per cent running for a spot in the Legislative Council are women.
"We are starting to see the very early stage of women mobilising, like in the US, in reaction to how frustrated they've been with the political discourse, but we're a long way off parity."In the lower house, where all 93 seats are up for grabs, Labor and Greens are running twice as many female candidates as the Coalition, with 46 per cent of Labor's candidates and 43 per cent of the Greens' women.
Among parties with candidates in 20 or more lower house seats, the Animal Justice Party has the highest percentage of women, with 63 per cent of 49 candidates female. On the upper house ballot paper, six of the lead candidates of 19 groups are female, including Animal Justice's Emma Hurst, Coalition's Catherine Cusack and Voluntary Euthanasia Party's Shayne Higson.
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