Female MPs maps

'At the current rate of change, it will take Labour around 20 years to get to 50-50 women and men, the Lib Dems around 50 years and the Conservatives around 400.' Fawcett Society.

Where no woman has gone before...

Data and text from the Electoral Reform Society
Updated after the 2010 election by Iain Old

Women won the right to stand for elections to the Commons in 1918, yet in many constituencies a woman has never been elected. Just 291 women have been elected to the Commons... ever; a mere 6% of all those who have ever sat in the House. Our map of Britain shows how great swathes of the country remain no-go areas for women in politics. Others are male-dominated - islands of pink in a sea of blue. It shatters the myth that equality has been achieved.

The Electoral Reform Society believes that Parliament should look like the people it represents, to enhance legitimacy, build trust and ensure that everyone has fair representation for their views. A proportional electoral system is one way to help achieve fair representation - PR systems have on average 10% more women than First-Past-the-Post systems. To find out more about our Women's Campaign or to sign up for our monthly information bulletin, contact women@electoral-reform.org.uk or 020 7928 1622.

Key

The following 30 constutuencies (50.8 % of the total) have never been represented by a woman: Aberdeen North Angus Berwickshire, Roxburgh & Selkirk Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross Central Ayrshire Dumfries & Galloway Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale & Tweedale East Kilbride, Strathaven & Lesmahagow Edinburgh North & Leith Edinburgh South Edinburgh West Falkirk Glasgow Central Glasgow North West Glasgow South Glasgow South West Glenrothes Gordon Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath Linlithgow & Falkirk East Livingstone Midlothian Motherwell & Wishaw Na h-Eileanan an Iar North East Fife Orkney & Shetland Paisley & Renfrewshire South Ross, Skye & Lochaber West Aberdeenshire & Kincardine