Still sacrificial lambs? Yes! Minority groups in Canadian federal elections, 2015–2021

Lapointe, Valérie; Ferland, Benjamin; Turgeon, Luc

doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2023.102717

Electoral Studies

2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.electstud.2023.102717

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Still sacrificial lambs? Yes! Minority groups in Canadian federal elections, 2015–2021

Valérie Lapointe,

Benjamin Ferland,

Luc Turgeon

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Are young candidates “sacrificial lambs”? Evidence from the 2012, 2017, and 2022 French legislative elections

Gélix,

Chassé

2024

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Are young candidates “sacrificial lambs”? Evidence from the 2012, 2017, and 2022 French legislative elections

Gélix,

Chassé

2024

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Selecting Diversity: Ethnicity, Party Strategies and Candidate Selection in New Zealand Elections, 1996–2020

Barker,

Crawley

2024

Political Studies

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Candidate selection shapes descriptive representation in important ways; you cannot be elected without first being selected. Unravelling opaque candidate selection processes is therefore critical to understanding descriptive representation and political parties’ electoral strategies. Drawing on a new dataset of New Zealand candidacies from 1996 to 2020, we demonstrate variation in candidacy patterns across parties, ethnic groups, and time. We show that both the centre-left (Labour) and centre-right (National) have increased the ethnic diversity of their candidate slates over time, although Labour’s overall share of non-majority candidates is higher than National’s. Both parties have primarily used the party list, not district candidacies, to achieve diversification. This approach leads to some volatility in representative diversity, in part due to list composition practices that prioritise incumbents and cluster ‘ethnic’ candidates. Thus, while New Zealand candidate slates show notably high diversity by international comparison, non-majority candidates can nonetheless find themselves in electorally vulnerable positions.

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Still sacrificial lambs? Yes! Minority groups in Canadian federal elections, 2015–2021

Cited by 2 publications

References 32 publications

Are young candidates “sacrificial lambs”? Evidence from the 2012, 2017, and 2022 French legislative elections

Are young candidates “sacrificial lambs”? Evidence from the 2012, 2017, and 2022 French legislative elections

Selecting Diversity: Ethnicity, Party Strategies and Candidate Selection in New Zealand Elections, 1996–2020

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