By the numbers: Uncontested races and number of female candidates from 1989 to 2019

In light of how three out of six races in this year’s Students’ Union elections were uncontested, and that only two out of 10 candidates this year were women, The Gateway looked through the past 30 years of SU elections to compare and contrast.

We only looked at serious candidates, so joke candidates are excluded from this count. Here are some highlights: