record number of british women are selected. In Labour it is over half, while the lags for The Conservatives.
Women sets a new record in british politics. A statement from the news agency Press Association shows that 220 out of the newly-elected british parliament members are women.
At the Labour party, over half of the selected women.
There is a Friday afternoon still a single constituency, which is not settled. Parliament has 650 members.
But it is not a seventh heaven, the female politicians have ended up in.
As the newspaper the Guardian reminds Friday on, so are the british still at number 38 of the countries with the most women in parliament.
There are marked differences between the political parties. Only a quarter of the elected conservatives are women, while The Liberal Democrats tops the list with 64 percent women.
In Labour, which suffered a disastrous defeat, weighs the women most after the elections. They put on 104 out of 203 seats, according to the count.
In the outgoing parliament are 208 members women.
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