Women underrepresented among candidates for city polls

When Georgetown residents go to the polls next week to vote for city councillors, only 20% of the candidates they can directly elect will be women.

This is despite the fact that reforms of the local government laws now allow for individual candidates to contest as part of a first-past-the-post (FPTP) system.

Of the 69 candidates contesting for the 15 FPTP seats in Georgetown,