Yes. As Lindsay Brumwell said, the data can be a bit spotty, but as far as we can tell, this is a larger number than usual. It represents another part of this trend.
Lindsay was talking about the numbers who run, but we're also seeing people not staying in politics as long. There hasn't been a survey of all 741, but when we did a news scan, looking at as many as we could, many of them were talking about online harassment as one reason. We're also seeing a loss of institutional memory, because people don't want to stand for election again or they resign more swiftly than we've generally seen in the past, with online harassment being one of the reasons often mentioned.
