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Women make few gains in senate. (Reports On Thai Political Developments).(Brief Article)
Note: This article was written before the Central Election Committee refused to endorse certain winning candidates and called for by-elections. In the by-elections, many women candidates who won the first election failed to gain enough votes to become senators.
The Senate election produced some interesting results for women, and a surprise-only one was elected in liberated Bangkok.
The more women that ran, the better the rate of success. That was clear from the historic election last Saturday.
As voters and senators, Thai women should be satisfied with the results. The breakdown of statistics showed that women candidates in Bangkok enjoyed almost the same ratio of success as their male counterparts. In provincial areas, the ratio is even higher. What seems to be more disturbing than the number of woman candidates who win is rather the very low number of women who decided to run. In 28 provinces there were no women candidates.
In the Bangkok area, 26 of 265 candidates were women. Only one was elected to the Upper House, however, which may be a little bit below the average ratio of 15:1. However, 10 women were among the 100 candidates with the highest scores. The next 50 saw seven women. This implies that of the very few women candidates in proportion to males, more than half came among the top 150.
Of course, in order to win, women may not have to get to the point of pushing for a 50:50 ratio, but the more women who run, the more women will win. It is unrealistic to expect the few women candidates to win more than their fair share.
If Bangkok needs 26 woman candidates to pick up one seat, provincial areas seemed to be much more generous. Out of 88 women candidates among the total of 1,266, 20 were elected, bringing the total number of woman senators to 21. Surprisingly, appointed or elected, the percentage of women in the Upper House remains largely unchanged. As in the Lower House, female representation has reached about 10 per cent at most and stayed that way for the past 10 years.
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