Gender Issues

In March I intend to look closely at how gender issues relate directly to the other criteria in my surveys; I shall once again use pie charts and will refrain from commenting on what they show.

This research may give glimpses of the paths that women have taken to reach the Commons; I would also like to research the effect of the Conservative 'A List' and the all-women shorts lists for the Labour Party.

I hope the research proves of value to those who manage to see it.

MPs with Constituency Connections before Original Selection

So which party has the most Parachutes?







Would you prefer a locally connected MP?

Council Service of MPs

Is council service a grounding for prospective MPs?








Does serving as a councillor allow MPs to have a better idea of how national policies will affect local services?

MPs by Tertiary Education

How many British MPs paid for their University education?







Of the MPs that provide information 87.5% completed University degrees, 12.5% did not.

MPs by Secondary Education

So does going to a 'good' school count?







There are now more than 2,500 independent schools in the UK, educating some 615,000 children,or some 7% of children throughout the country. Wiki.

MPs by Social Class Origins

Is 'class' still an issue in C21 Britain?

MPs by Decade of Birth

Are our MPs like Policemen? Do they look younger every election?

MPs by Ethnicity

The Ethnicity Balance of MPs

The Ethnic Make-up of the UK [2001 Census]

MPs by Gender

The gender balance of our MPs is shown below:









51% of the population of the UK is female.

49% of the population of the UK is male.

Are Our Representatives Representative?

I have been looking at the make up of our parliamentary parties. I have used 9 criteria and separately will take a look at 'employment' prior to becoming an MP. Later on, I will make some comparison across the sub-sets of data and suggest some questions.

The pie chart results are provisional; further work needs to be done on the MPs who have not allowed certain pieces of information [within my criteria] to be published.

Initially I will publish charts that are criteria based across the House of Commons as a whole and then, at a later date will group the charts by party.

The final phase will be to show the cross data results - for instance, decade of birth and secondary education, or gender and tertiary education.

I hope these charts will prove interesting and useful.

The data herein is owned by Malcolm from Over The Pond.

Criteria Sets:

Gender; Ethnicity; Decade of Birth; Country of Birth; Origins of Social Class; Secondary Education; Tertiary Education; Service as Councillor; Connection with Constituency pre-selection.