Women Candidates in Council Elections:
	Measures of Success, 1993 - 2007
	Women have never fared well in becoming candidates in Maltese elections, particularly in elections to
	the national legislature. In the local Council elections their participation and their successes have
	consistently been higher than at the General Elections. Table 1 shows a fairly steady pattern in
	their share of candidacies and of seats won.
	Table 1: Women's Percentage Share of Candidacies and Seats
		Candidacies	Seats
	Round 1	16.00	13.15
	Round 2	16.89	17.10
	Round 3	21.58	20.28
	Round 4	19.60	17.17
	Round 5	20.16	18.27
	All Rounds	18.84	17.21
	Looking at the relative success of male and female candidates, the former have usually been more
	successful in making their candidacies winning ones, as Table 2 demonstrates. However, their
	success rate has been only marginally better than that of the female candidates.
	Table 2: Comparative Participation and Success of
	Male and Female Candidates
			Men
		All	Win	Lose	% Win
	Round 1	761	370	391	48.62
	Round 2	566	354	212	62.54
	Round 3	601	346	255	57.57
	Round 4	599	357	242	59.60
	Round 5	610	358	252	58.69
	All Rounds	3,137	1,785	1,352	56.90
			Women
		All	Win	Lose	% win
	Round 1	145	56	89	38.62
	Round 2	115	73	42	63.48
	Round 3	168	88	80	52.38
	Round 4	146	74	72	50.68
	Round 5	154	80	74	51.95
	All Rounds	728	371	357	50.96
	There are some differences in regard to the party affiliation of women candidates. For one,
	female PN candidates have outnumbered candidates of other parties and groups in each
	round of elections.
	Yet, with the exception of the 3rd round, they have been less successful in making their
	candidacies winning one.
	Table 3: Women Candidates, by Party
		PN Women Candidates
		Win	Lose	All	% win
	Round 1	34	59	93	36.56
	Round 2	41	22	63	65.08
	Round 3	39	52	91	42.86
	Round 4	43	45	88	48.86
	Round 5	35	47	82	42.68
	All Rounds	192	225	417	46.04
		Non-PN Women Candidates
		Win	Lose	All	% win
	Round 1	22	30	52	42.31
	Round 2	32	20	52	61.54
	Round 3	49	28	77	63.64
	Round 4	31	27	58	53.45
	Round 5	45	27	72	62.50
	All Rounds	177	132	311	56.91
	Note: Includes a very small number of women who won a seat
	when there was no competitive election; some of them may
	have been PN candidates