--- title: UK Election: More Women in Parliament Than Ever Before description: See how the U.K. has moved toward gender equality in its House of Commons after the June 8 snap election canonical: https://time.com/4812906/uk-election-women-mps-parliament/ author: Catherine Trautwein article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-09T16:55:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:05:43.226Z og:title: More Women Than Ever Before Elected to Parliament in U.K. Snap Polls og:description: At least 207 women have been elected to the U.K. House of Commons og:url: https://time.com/4812906/uk-election-women-mps-parliament/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04006a24a4de0deb/6988caeca988cab3016bbf66/gettyimages-580699803-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3924 og:image:height: 2207 og:image:alt: UK Parliament og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: More Women Than Ever Before Elected to Parliament in U.K. Snap Polls twitter:description: At least 207 women have been elected to the U.K. House of Commons twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04006a24a4de0deb/6988caeca988cab3016bbf66/gettyimages-580699803-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # More Women Than Ever Before Elected to Parliament in U.K. Snap Polls > Sponsored content. 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Getty Images by [Catherine Trautwein](https://time.com/author/catherine-trautwein/) ## Catherine Trautwein Jun 9, 2017 4:55 PM UTC Though the [U.K. election](http://time.com/4812403/uk-election-theresa-may-takeaways/) might have produced poor results for [Theresa May and her Conservative Party](http://time.com/4812481/prime-minister-theresa-may-resignation-countdown/), the [June 8 snap polls](http://time.com/4812377/uk-election-hung-parliament-what-happens-next/) led to banner outcomes for other female lawmakers, as more women than ever before will now hold positions in Parliament. At least 207 women were chosen by U.K. constituents to be representatives in the House of Commons, trumping the previous record of 196 women by 11 seats, according to the [Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/09/record-number-of-female-mps-elected-in-2017-general-election). The new record means that just under one-third of representatives in the 650-member House of Commons will be women, leaving a more than two-to-one ratio of men to women in place. “In terms of women, the fight is still on,” said Frances Scott, founder and director of a [campaign for gender balance](https://www.change.org/p/men-outnumber-women-by-more-than-2-1-in-the-commons-50-50-want-more-women-at-westminster-and-gender-balance-in-parliament-5050parliament) in the U.K. government called [50:50 Parliament](http://www.5050parliament.co.uk/gender-equality-is-a-human-right-so-women-need-more-seats-in-parliament/). “There have been some fantastic women elected,” Scott added. “The result is good, but it’s not good enough.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4812906/uk-election-women-mps-parliament/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4812906/uk-election-women-mps-parliament/"},"headline":"More Women Than Ever Before Elected to Parliament in U.K. Snap Polls","datePublished":"2017-06-09T16:55:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:05:43.226Z","description":"At least 207 women have been elected to the U.K. House of Commons","url":"https://time.com/4812906/uk-election-women-mps-parliament/","keywords":["motto","politics","gender equality","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04006a24a4de0deb/6988caeca988cab3016bbf66/gettyimages-580699803-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Catherine Trautwein","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/catherine-trautwein/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04006a24a4de0deb/6988caeca988cab3016bbf66/gettyimages-580699803-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"UK Parliament","caption":"UK Parliament","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4812906/uk-election-women-mps-parliament/","name":"More Women Than Ever Before Elected to Parliament in U.K. Snap Polls"}}]}] ```