Diversity another big winner in 2015 election

With a record number of female MPs elected, 2015’s general election is being considered ‘historical’ for women in parliament.

As the results come in, 30% of MPs so far are women, a considerable comparison to 2010 when women made up just 23% of the House of Commons with 142 elected; exceeding to 148 in by-elections. The 166 female MPs currently elected shows that 1 in 3 MPs in the UK are now female.

 Of the election successes, women have notably taken seats from high-profile party members with Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, Ed Balls losing to Andrea Jenkyns, Conservative, for the Morley and Outwood seat, and Kirsten Oswald, SNP, won the East Renfrewshire seat from Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy.