Publication : Factsheet

This leaflet contains statistical information relating to the number of women candidates who stood for election, and the number of women who were actually elected in the Commune/Sangkat elections on 3 June 2012. Ten political parties ran in the elections: the Cambodian People’s Party ("CPP"), the Sam Rainsy Party ("SRP"), FUNCIPEC Party ("FCP"), the Norodom Rannaridh Party ("NRP"), the Human Rights Party ("HRP"), the League for Democracy Party ("LDP"), the Khmer Anti-Poverty Party ("APP"), the Khmer National Party ("KNP"), the Republic Democratic Party ("RDP"), and the Democratic Movement Party ("DMP"). Of these ten parties, only seven won seats in the elections. There were a total of 28,481 out of 111,056 women candidates (25.65%) and women were elected to 2,038 seats, 17.79% of the total number of seat (11,459). The data below is taken from information gathered by the National Election Committee (“NEC”).

Information Source : Key Statistics of Women Candidates and Women Elected Commune/Sangkat Councils Elections, June 2012

• CCHR