The other Labor-Coalition contest: Who has the most women in Parliament?

By Amy Corderoy
Updated June 5 2016 - 9:23pm, first published March 29 2015 - 10:37pm
Eleni Petinos, the successful Liberal candidate for Miranda, Jodi McKay, the successful ALP candidate for Strathfield, Verity Firth, who narrowly missed out in Balmain, Jo Haylen, the successful ALP candidate for Summer Hill, Bronnie Taylor, a Nationals upper house candidate, Jessica Price-Purnell, an unsuccessful Nationals candidate for Cessnock, and Jenny Leong, the successful Greens candidate for Newtown. Photo: Louise Kennerley
Eleni Petinos, the successful Liberal candidate for Miranda, Jodi McKay, the successful ALP candidate for Strathfield, Verity Firth, who narrowly missed out in Balmain, Jo Haylen, the successful ALP candidate for Summer Hill, Bronnie Taylor, a Nationals upper house candidate, Jessica Price-Purnell, an unsuccessful Nationals candidate for Cessnock, and Jenny Leong, the successful Greens candidate for Newtown. Photo: Louise Kennerley

Almost half the Labor politicians in the lower house of Parliament will be women, compared with only about one in five Liberal MPs.

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