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A RECORD of 220 female MPs were elected to the House of Commons as the general-election results arrived into the early hours of yesterday.
The previous record was in 2017, when 208 were elected.
Women accounted for 34 per cent of all candidates this year, up from 29 per cent in the 2017 snap election.
But more than a tenth of constituencies had no female candidates, with 75 seats dominated by the opposite sex.
Labour was the only party with equal, or better-than-equal representation for women, with more than half of its candidates being female.
