United Kingdom - House of Commons


In the 54th Parliament of the United Kingdom (2005), 19.5% of representatives were women (125.84 out of 645.46)


This graph shows the respective contributions to overall gender representation of the bottom three and top three parties. Parties with a high proportion of women may still rank as having low contributions because of low total numbers of representatives.

0% represents the hypothetical gender balance of the chamber without each party in turn (see methodology) rather than 50/50.


The party that has the highest positive influential on the gender balance is Labour.

27.04% of this party's representatives are women. These 95.04 women account for 75.52% of all women elected in this period.

Including this party raises the representation of women by 9.02%.


The party that has the highest negative influential on the gender balance is Conservative.

8.82% of this party's representatives are women. These 17.15 women account for 13.62% of all women elected in this period.

Including this party lowers the representation of women by -4.6%.


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