Two Paris Mayor elections in a row both were an all Women candidates runoff.
Paris Mayor election in 2020 three women ran and in 2013 four women ran for Paris Mayor position.
In Paris the incumbent Socialist Mayor Anne Hidalgo held on to her seat. Mayor Anne Hidalgo was challenged by conservative Rachida Dati, who served as former president Nicolas Sarkozy’s justice minister and Agnès Buzyn, President Emmanuel Macron’s former health minister.
Mayor Anne Hidalgo’s staffing 11 women and only five men in management positions.
The number of women politicians across the world has skyrocketed in the last decade, according to the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan nonprofit that tracks gender parity in global politics. Since the end of World War II, 64 of the 193 countries surveyed have elected a female head of state with the majority of women rising to the highest office in the 2000s, according to the council’s Women’s Power Index. More women are running for office and winning than ever before.
