Reformists win, but women lose in Kuwait elections

Kuwait’s first parliamentary elections to see women participate were a victory for political reformists, but a disappointment for female candidates, none of whom won a seat.

Names of winners in yesterday’s public vote published by the state-owned Kuwait News Agency indicated that 36 of those who won seats in the 50-seat house were reformers. Twenty-one of them held seats in the previous parliament that the emir, Kuwait’s ruler, dissolved last month.