iN NUMBERS: How women did in the municipal election

While the number of women elected mayor in the Okanagan doubled after municipal elections, and a few councils now see a 50/50 men-to-women split, women are still underrepresented in municipal politics.

Here are a few numbers to keep it in perspective.

• 4: The number of women councillors at the District of Summerland, the only place in the Okanagan where women councillors are the majority. 
• 3: The number of women councillors in Lytton.
• 75: The percentage of women councillors in Lytton (the village only has four seats). 
• 9: The number of municipalities that have an equal split of male and female councillors. They are Lumby, Peachland, Okanagan Falls, Ashcroft, Cache Creek, Revelstoke, Barriere, Merritt, and Salmon Arm.
• 27: The percentage of municipalities with a 50/50 men-to-women split on council in the Okanagan/Thompson/Shuswap/Columbia.
• 13: The number of women mayors in the Okanagan/Thompson/Shuswap/Columbia
• 35: The percentage of women mayors in the Okanagan
• 30: The percentage of women councillors in the Okanagan
• 44: The percentage of women mayors in the Thompson/Shuswap/Columbia
• 37: The percentage of women councillors in the Thompson/Shuswap/Columbia
• 45.7: The percentage of women politicians in the 2022 municipal election
• 52.7: The percentage of women in the BC legislature.
• 30.6: Percentage of women MPs in Ottawa
• 63.8: The percent of women politicians in Rwanda. The number 1 ranking for women politicians in the world.
• 73: Canada’s ranking in the world for women politicians. One place behind Equatorial Guinea and one place above Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
• 85: The US position.
• 50.9: Roughly the percentage of women in BC.