Abstract
ABSTRACT The 2018 parliamentary elections were a watershed year for women in Latvian politics where women's descriptive representation increased from 18% to 31% in one election with no gender quota. This paper explores this significant gain by examining ranked choice (positive and negative) preference voting in the Latvian Saeima (parliament) elections. The results show that small institutional changes increased the pool of candidates and countered stagnant levels of women's representation. Though female candidates were less likely to have their names struck out on party lists, women received fewer pluses than their male counterparts, revealing gender bias against female candidates.
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