Taken from the "Team" section of the PC website, behold the diversity of Tim Hudak's PC Party
While the Ontario Liberals have done a pretty enviable job of attracting female candidates to run for office (something that I'm pretty personally passionate about), for example, having more women in cabinet than the opposition parties have MPP's, combined. The Ontario Liberals have also done a solid job of promoting policies that help women and families across the province, such as full day kindergarten.
However, while Tim Hudak and the PC's continue to attack such policies, he has also failed at attracting female candidates for his party for the next election. In a caucus that already has a lack of women (only 6 of his 25 MPP's are women) a look at the numbers of who has declared to run for PC nominations/have been nominated shows a distinct lack of women.
As far as I can tell from doing research from sources like the PC nomination thread on the Blogging Tories forum, here are the numbers by my count, so these might not be the exact numbers, but the trends are still visible:
Number of unheld ridings in which nomination meetings have already happened, or candidates have declared for the nomination: 27
Number of candidates who ran/are running for aforementioned nomination meetings: 51
Number of women who have run, or have declared to run, for a PC nomination: 13
Only 25% of the candidates who have taken a chance at running to be a candidate for the PC's have been women.
Number of unheld ridings in which no women have ran or declared for a nomination: 19
70% of unheld riding nominations have featured absolutely no women in the race.
Number of unheld ridings in which PC's have nominated a candidate so far: 17
Number of those ridings in which a woman has been nominated as the candidate: 3
Only 18% of unheld ridings have nominated a female candidate. It's worth noting that this 18% figure is significantly lower than the 24% of female representation Hudak's caucus currently has.
Number of contested nomination meetings which have featured a female candidate (so discounting appointments): 4
Number of women actually winning contested nomination meetings: 1
In only 25% of ridings in which PC voters had a chance to vote for a female candidate did they actually elect one.
However, while Tim Hudak and the PC's continue to attack such policies, he has also failed at attracting female candidates for his party for the next election. In a caucus that already has a lack of women (only 6 of his 25 MPP's are women) a look at the numbers of who has declared to run for PC nominations/have been nominated shows a distinct lack of women.
As far as I can tell from doing research from sources like the PC nomination thread on the Blogging Tories forum, here are the numbers by my count, so these might not be the exact numbers, but the trends are still visible:
Number of unheld ridings in which nomination meetings have already happened, or candidates have declared for the nomination: 27
Number of candidates who ran/are running for aforementioned nomination meetings: 51
Number of women who have run, or have declared to run, for a PC nomination: 13
Only 25% of the candidates who have taken a chance at running to be a candidate for the PC's have been women.
Number of unheld ridings in which no women have ran or declared for a nomination: 19
70% of unheld riding nominations have featured absolutely no women in the race.
Number of unheld ridings in which PC's have nominated a candidate so far: 17
Number of those ridings in which a woman has been nominated as the candidate: 3
Only 18% of unheld ridings have nominated a female candidate. It's worth noting that this 18% figure is significantly lower than the 24% of female representation Hudak's caucus currently has.
Number of contested nomination meetings which have featured a female candidate (so discounting appointments): 4
Number of women actually winning contested nomination meetings: 1
In only 25% of ridings in which PC voters had a chance to vote for a female candidate did they actually elect one.
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