In 2014, a new electoral law even required parties to reach gender parity in candidate lists for federal and state legislative elections and to alternate genders within the lists (OECD, 2017(9]). In the last elections before quotas were introduced in 2007, 18 women were elected to the national parliament, in 2009, the first elections following the introduction of the quota, 52 women were elected (a change of 189%). In Slovenia, only a modest change has been discerned: 11 women were elected in the last elections before the quota was introduced in 2004 and 12 during the first elections after the quota was applied in 2008 (a change of 9%), however, the number of women candidates increased in 2008 even though the number of total candidates decreased (24% of total candidates were women in 2004 compared to 35% in 2008). In Poland, in the last elections before the quota was applied in 2007, 94 women were elected, compared to 110 in 2011 after the quota was introduced (a change of 17%).