Record number of women elected to British Parliament

[demmiblue]

Source: CNN



London (CNN)It's official -- Britain will have more women members of Parliament than ever before.

On a dramatic night that shook the political establishment to its core and forced Prime Minister Theresa May to place her Conservative Party into a coalition with Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party, some 207 female lawmakers were elected to the House of Commons.

With one seat yet to be declared, that number already surpasses the 196 elected in the 2015 vote and subsequent by-elections.

One of the biggest surprises came in Canterbury, Kent, where Rosie Duffield clinched the seat for Labour for the first time since 1918.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/09/europe/election-record-number-women-mps/index.html?sr=twCNN060917election-record-number-women-mps0232PMVODtopLink&linkId=38534071

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[LisaM]

1. Good news!

Still not at or above 50%, but a gain is a gain.

[Botany]

2. Loves me some Rosie Duffield

http://www.kentlive.news/who-is-rosie-duffield-meet-the-labour-mp-who-has-made-history/story-30380755-detail/story.html

[demmiblue]

12. Thank you for that link... she is an impressive woman!

[athena]

3. I hope we will see the same thing here in 2018.

[hamsterjill]

5. Me, too!

I hope that is going to be one of the "benefits" of the Trump presidency.

[KWR65]

4. It doesn't matter. Whomever, gives them money will dictate what they do.

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Those with the gold make the rules.

[Ligyron]

6. So May screwed up holding elections?

Didn't work out as she had hoped?

[Crowman2009]

8. I wouldn't count her as a woman, or a human being for that matter.

Just saying! All I know is that those Dalmations are finally safe.

[Sunlei]

10. She didn't have to call an election.

[shenmue]

7. Yes!

[No Vested Interest]

9. Are more women voting in 2017 in Britain than in previous elections? nt

[T_i_B]

13. More young people voted

That's what made the difference.

[Sunlei]

11. Once it's 50% woman elected, that's equality.