Women in regional parliamentary assemblies

Women in regional
parliamentary assemblies

Assemblies elected by direct suffrage only

The data in the tables below has been compiled by the Inter-Parliamentary Union on the basis of information provided by the two regional parliamentary assemblies concerned. Comparative data on the percentage of women in each National Parliament as well as the corresponding world and regional averages can be found on separate pages. You can use the PARLINE database to view detailed results of parliamentary elections by country.

CENTRAL AMERICAN PARLIAMENT 21.6%
Country	Seats	Women	Percentage
Nicaragua	21	7	33.3%
El Salvador	20	6	30.0%
Honduras	21	5	23.8%
Panama	12	2	16.7%
Dominican Republic	22	3	13.6%
Guatemala	20	2	10.0%
*Total:*	116	25	21.6%

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT 35.2%

Country Seats Women Percentage

Finland 13 8 61.5%

Sweden 18 10 55.6%

Estonia 6 3 50.0%

Netherlands 25 12 48.0%

Bulgaria 17 8 47.1%

Denmark 13 6 46.2%

France 72 32 44.4%

Austria 17 7 41.2%

Slovakia 13 5 38.5%

Latvia 8 3 37.5%

Germany 99 37 37.4%

Belgium 22 8 36.4%

Hungary 22 8 36.4%

Portugal 22 8 36.4%

Romania 33 12 36.4%

Spain 50 18 36.0%

Cyprus 6 2 33.3%

Luxembourg 6 2 33.3%

United Kingdom 72 24 33.3%

Greece 22 7 31.8%

Slovenia 7 2 28.6%

Ireland 12 3 25.0%

Lithuania 12 3 25.0%

Italy 72 16 22.2%

Poland 50 11 22.0%

Czech Republic 22 4 18.2%

Malta 5 0 0.0%

Total: 736 259 35.2%