The last nine Conservative Associations to adopt have all chosen men. Fourteen of the most recent seventeen selections (since ConservativeHome last updated its rolling list) have been of men. This run of selections has cut the proportion of women selected since the last General Election from 38.1% to 34.8%. The proportion of women selected in this parliament before introduction of the A-list is now slightly greater again than since the A-list was introduced.
The proportion of local or non-A-list candidates selected since the introduction of the A-list is also down, but only very slightly, to 46.3%. This number may overstate the proportion of non-A-listers selected, however, as ConservativeHome no longer tracks membership of the still secret 'Priority List'. There may be some A-listers who have been adopted but who have not been identified as such (although CCHQ normally tell me when I fail to do so!).
Paul Uppal's Friday evening victory in Wolverhampton SW does lift the proportion of ethnic minority candidates to 3.5%.
CCHQ had hoped that at least one of the two 'safe' seats where Tory MPs are retiring - Hampshire East and Tiverton and Honiton - would select a woman. Hampshire East has already chosen Damian Hinds. Neil Parish and Edward Heathcoat-Amory are the favourites to succeed Angela Browning in her Devon seat with its 11,051 majority.
