ConservativeHome's analysis of selection races has been quoted in most newspapers in recent days - including in today's Daily Mail and Guardian. On Monday we published a ten point history of the list. As we await news on 'who is on the A-list top-up?' - first class letters were sent out from CCHQ yesterday - here is an up-to-date list of relevant numbers and percentages:
9% - Conservative MPs who are currently women
16% - LibDem MPs who are women
28% - Labour MPs who are women
11% - Conservative 2005 parliamentary intake who were women
19% - Women Conservative candidates at the 2005 election in target and Conservative held seats (where the former MP was retiring) that selected women candidates
30.0% - Proportion of women selected since A-list (6 of 20)
31.0% - Proportion of women selected of all candidates (13 of 42)
31.8% - Proportion of women fast-tracked after General Election but before A-list (7 of 22)
57.1% - CCHQ's target for the number of women to be selected in the first round of A-list use
Bernard Jenkin's comment to this morning's Guardian: "It was only ever a very long shot that 50% of new MPs would be women. We are making substantial progress - barely 11% of our new MPs were women last time and we are going to double or treble that."
0.0% - Proportion of ethnic minority candidates fast-tracked after General Election but before A-list (0 of 22)
10.0% - Proportion of ethnic minority candidates selected since A-list (2 of 20)
4.8% - Proportion of ethnic minority candidates selected of all candidates (2 of 42)
45.0% - Proportion of local or non-A-list candidates selected since A-list (9 of 20)
45.7% - Proportion of first tranche seats yet to select or which postponed selections (16 of 35)
10.7% - Proportion of individual candidates from first A-list adopted (11 of 103)
More than 50% - Proportion of women on first A-list and top-up
More than 10% - Proportion of ethnic minority candidates on first A-list and top-up
Not targeted by CCHQ - Proportion of candidates from the public and voluntary sector
Not targeted by CCHQ - Proportion of candidates who are state-educated candidates
Not targeted by CCHQ - Proportion of candidates from outside of London
Editor's comment: "David Cameron wants to build a more representative party but that only appears to mean more women and more ethnic minority candidates. Other forms of 'diversity' - including action to help lower income candidates - are not being meaningfully pursued."
103 - Number of candidates on first A-list (approximate)
192 - Number of candidates on A-list after top-up (estimate)
Editor's comment: "An A-list of nearly 200 candidates is not the elite list it was once presented as."
