Ontario Election Candidates Mostly Men, White
Thursday September 20th 2007, 7:42 am
Filed under: - 2007 ON Election, Canadian Politics

With the deadline for candidates to file their paperwork having passed, we now have the final tally of candidates for the 2007 Ontario election. Voters will be presented with a field of candidates that is almost 3/4 male and over 90% white.

Overall, 590 candidates are running — an average of 5.5 per riding. The Liberals, Progressive Conservatives, NDP and Green Party are running a full slate of 107 candidates, while the Family Coalition Party is running candidates in about 3/4 of ridings (83 candidates). There are also 79 other candidates from other parties and independents.

The NDP and Liberals have the most diverse slate of candidates, with both the most women and minority candidates. The NDP is running 40% women and the Liberals 36% women. The NDP has 16% minority candidates, while the Liberals have 14%. The Progressive Conservatives and Green candidates are less diverse, with more men and fewer minorities.

Profile of Ontario Candidates (in percentages)

Total
Nominated 1 100% 100% 100% 100% 78% - -
Men 64% 78% 60% 78% 76% 89% 73.2%
Women 36% 22% 40% 22% 24% 11% 26.8%
Minority 14% 8% 16% 3% 12% 5% 9.7%

Profile of Ontario Candidates (raw numbers)

Total
Nominated 1 107 107 107 107 83 79 590
Men 69 83 64 83 63 70 432
Women 38 24 43 24 20 9 158
Minority 15 9 17 3 10 3 57

Notes
1 Percentage for “Nominated” is the % out of the 107 ridings that have a nominated candidate. The percentage for men, women, and minorities is the % out of the nominated candidates.

Parties
Liberal
Progressive Conservative
New Democrat
Green
Family Coalition
All Others including Independents, Libertarian, Freedom, Communist, Confederation of Regions, Republican, Reform, Special Needs


5 Comments/commentaires
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How do you determine who is a man, woman or minority? Do you just go by their names, because that would not be very reliable.

Comment/commentaire by Darwin O'Connor 09.20.07 @ 8:22 am

You’re not giving Greg much credit. He’s a researcher – I’m sure he researched it.

Heck, I’m not a researcher, and even I would know better then to presume something on a person’s name alone.

Comment/commentaire by Scott Tribe 09.20.07 @ 9:15 am

MMP will make the the electoral process & our MPP’s more diverse….

One of the reasons supporters of MMP often give for supporting this electoral reform initiative is that we believe it will help the legislature become more diverse and more representative of the actual Ontario population. We feel the current system is …

Trackback by Scott's DiaTribes 09.20.07 @ 9:59 am

Do people in the real world really cast their ballot based on race or gender? Sure, there are some who have preferences for their own ethnic group, but I suspect most people don’t use the election as a kind of affirmative action program. It’s a matter of who does the best job.

Comment/commentaire by SUZANNE 09.21.07 @ 7:07 am

A hypothetical conversation with Mr. Tory

Me: Mr Tory would you be willing to answer a hypothetical question.

Mr. T. : Hypothetically yes.

Me: Suppose Mr Tory that you decided to go skydiving and you were going to jump into a beautiful valley with lots of fresh water and beautiful shade trees. So you take a small canteen and a warm comfortable sleeping bag and heavy tent. You go up in the plane and you jump. BUT there is a terrible mistake and you end up jumping into a blazing hot desert. What do you do do you carry the warm sleeping bag and heavy tent or do you cut your losses and adapt.

Mr T. : mumble…mumble …exclaimation…etc.

Me: Ding, ding , ding…..I can name that tune…It I’m dancing as fast as I can.

Mr T. : mumble…mumble …exclaimation…etc.

Me: Which naturally leads us to the question….How did Mr. McGuinty end up in the desert ?

Mr T. : mumble…mumble …exclaimation…etc.

Me: I think the basis of the situation was that the province was almost Harrised into the ground and then as I see it we faced the Eves of destruction and the net result was that Dalton was in the desert where he had to adapt….which is doubtlessly what you would have done too.

Mr T. : mumble…mumble …exclaimation…etc.

Me: And now you have the gall to come before the people of Ontario and suggest we elect another of these Tory-bull premiers that would put us back out even further into the desert….and no sir I am not making fun of your name…your party’s name….yes …yours ..no.

Comment/commentaire by Martin 10.07.07 @ 12:17 pm



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