Generally, large district
size tends to favor women’s representation. This is due to the fact that in systems with large district size in multi-member constituencies,
men and women do not need “to compete for a single post in the nomination
process within a party. Parties are thus less concerned about a potential male
bias among voters, which often leads them to nominate a male candidate over a
female one in single-member districts, often referring to him as the most
broadly acceptable candidate.”[1]
[1] International IDEA,
Inter-Parliamentary Union and Stockholm University (2013): op. cit., p. 22.
