ABSTRACT We examine the impact of political parties on the success of women and men candidates in the 2005 municipal elections of Québec’s two most populous regions, Montérégie and Montréal. We built the dataset by requesting documentation from each municipality separately. This original dataset supports our two hypotheses. First, we demonstrate that the presence of political parties did not affect the difference in percentages of votes obtained by women and men candidates. No matter the gender, candidates affiliated with a political party obtained more votes than independent ones. Second, we find that gender did not affect contributions. No matter the gender, the presence of political parties and the candidates’ affiliation had a positive impact on their contributions. Québec conforms to findings in the U.S. literature: women and men candidates, under similar circumstances, are equally likely to obtain votes and contributions.

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政党和妇女在 2005 年蒙特雷吉和蒙特利尔（加拿大魁北克）市政选举中的成功

摘要 我们研究了政党对 2005 年魁北克两个人口最多的地区蒙特雷吉和蒙特利尔的市政选举中女性和男性候选人成功的影响。我们通过分别从每个市政当局请求文档来构建数据集。这个原始数据集支持我们的两个假设。首先，我们证明政党的存在并不影响女性和男性候选人获得的选票百分比的差异。无论性别，隶属于政党的候选人获得的选票都比独立候选人多。其次，我们发现性别不影响贡献。无论性别，政党的存在和候选人的隶属关系对他们的贡献都有积极的影响。魁北克符合美国文献中的发现：女性和男性候选人，