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A record number of women were nominated, with 162 of the 531 candidates. This was the first Irish general election in which there was a female candidate running in every constituency. If a party does not have a minimum of 30% male and 30% female candidates, it forfeits half of their state funding.
The 2020 general election held mixed fortunes for women candidates. On the one hand it was a very successful day for female party leaders Mary Lou McDonald (Sinn Féin), Catherine Murphy and Róisín Shortall (Social Democrats co-leaders) as they saw their parties’ Dáil representation increase in size.
May 13, 2020 · The February 2020 general election will be remembered as the “change” election, when the two dominant parties of Irish politics, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, trailed behind Sinn Féin in voters' preferences for the first time. However, for the gender balance of Irish politics, much remained unchanged. While the number of women elected to ...
- Fiona Buckley, Yvonne Galligan
- 2020
May 26, 2023 · Take action and join the movement for gender equality in Irish Politics. In 2022, Women for Election was awarded a grant of €47,000 from the Public Service Innovation Fund 2022, operated by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (DEPR), to support the establishment of a Women in Politics National Data Hub. The DataHub is a ...
Feb 6, 2018 · In 1918 it was the first Irish political party to run women candidates in a general election. ... before the Irish government had a second female minister after Markievicz, who held the post of ...
Feb 13, 2020 · The Irish Labour Party is a social democratic party, founded in 1912 as part of the trade union movement, with which it maintains organisational links. In 2011, it became the second largest party ...
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Feb 9, 2020 · Of the 530 candidates who asked for the public’s support on Saturday, 162 were women, according to Women for Election and the National Women’s Council of Ireland.
