Leading Female Candidates
Only one of the eighteen women running in this election won a seat. Where run-offs are mentioned, these took place on December 2. Below is a non-comprehensive list of some of the women candidates in the election.
Read more about this topic: Bahrain Election 2006 Women Candidates
Famous quotes containing the words leading, female and/or candidates:
“you are leading me on
To the spots we knew when we haunted here together,”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
“There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.”
—Joan Rivers (b. 1935)
“The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal—that you can gather votes like box tops—is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.”
—Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)