Jeanette Ashe

Jeanette Ashe
Born	North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
🏳️ Nationality	Canadian
💼 Occupation	Educator, author
👩 Spouse(s)	Kennedy Stewart

Jeanette Ashe is a Canadian political scientist, educator, and author.

Early life and education

Ashe was born in North Vancouver, British Columbia. Before earning her Bachelor of Arts and master's degrees in political science at Simon Fraser University, she worked at a Safeway in Coquitlam and was a shop steward with the United Food and Commercial Workers union.

Ashe's Master of Arts thesis is titled The electoral frontier: women's representation in British Columbia's legislature. She completed her PhD in political science from Birkbeck, University of London in 2016, where she conducted her research on party candidate selection processes under the supervision of Joni Lovenduski and Rosie Campbell.

Career

In 2005, after completing her master's, Ashe became a faculty member in the department of political science at Douglas College.

Ashe served as the chair of the political science department at Douglas College from 2016 to 2022. She is currently the visiting senior research fellow at the Global Institute for Women's Leadership at King's College London.

Ashe is active in party politics. She advised the BC NDP on implementing gender quotas and chaired the party's gender and women's rights committee. In April 2022, Ashe ran as the BC NDP candidate in the Vancouver-Quilchena provincial by-election prompted by the resignation of former BC Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson. She faced new BC Liberal leader Kevin Falcon and was endorsed by the Vancouver & District Labour Council.

Later in 2022, Ashe ran for Vancouver City Council under the Forward Together banner. She was endorsed by former NDP MPs Libby Davies and Olivia Chow, and current NDP leader Jagmeet Singh.

Research

Ashe's research focuses on Canadian and British politics, political recruitment, political parties, representation, and gender and politics. She authored the book Political Candidate Selection: Who wins, Who Loses and Under-representation in the UK, and other recent publications include:

• The Implementation of Equality-Based Candidate Selection Decisions in the British Labour and Conservative Parties
• Canada’s Political Parties: Gatekeepers to Parliament
• Gender Sensitivity Under Trudeau: Facebook Feminism or Real Change?

Ashe's research on gender and diversity sensitive parliaments includes the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association’s Gender Sensitising Parliament: A Seven-Step Field Guide, Gender Sensitising Parliaments: A Cross-Jurisdictional Review of Canada, and Assessing Gender and Diversity Sensitivity at the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.

Ashe's research is published in the Canadian Journal of Political Science, Party Politics, British Politics, and the Journal of Women, Politics & Policy. She provided expert testimony to the House of Commons Standing Committee on the Status of Women's study, Barriers Facing Women in Parliament.

Personal life

Ashe lives in Vancouver with her husband, former NDP MP and Vancouver mayor Kennedy Stewart.

Electoral history

British Columbia provincial by-election, April 30, 2022: Vancouver-Quilchena
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Kevin Falcon	6,200	58.61	+2.57
	New Democratic	Jeanette Ashe	2,590	24.48	–4.08
	Green	Wendy Hayko	1,025	9.69	–5.71
	Conservative	Dallas Brodie	698	6.60	–
	Libertarian	Sandra Filosof-Schipper	66	0.62	–
Total valid votes			10,579	99.95	–
Total rejected ballots			5	0.05	–0.46
Turnout			10,584	27.56	–27.56
Registered voters			38,399
	Liberal hold		Swing		+3.33
Source: Elections BC

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