How many women on the ballot?

There are more than 900 of them vying for the major elective posts this year, but women politicians are still overwhelmingly outnumbered by male rivals whose number runs to the thousands. The Commission on Election’s official list of candidates shows there are 907 women out of the total 4,678 candidates for the positions of senator, district representative, governor, city mayor, and municipal mayor in the May 13 elections.

That is an average of one woman against 4 in the various races. In terms of percentages, there appears to be a bigger share of women candidates for the Senate, for example. For 2013, women consist 27% of senatorial candidates – 9 out of 33.


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