This chapter uses subnational data from EU member states to demonstrate that the presence of women in elected office mitigates the level of corruption. The chapter's main findings are based on data from the European Quality of Government (EQI) survey, which examines governance at the subnational level within the EU. By moving to the subnational level, it is possible to examine relationships between levels of corruption and the proportion of women elected in more detail than is possible with the national-level data used in other chapters of the book. The chapter highlights that the electoral arena is different from other spheres of government since, in well-functioning democracies, elected politicians and the parties to which they belong are regularly contested. For female politicians it may be a mix of strategic reasoning (a wish to be elected or re-elected) and ideological motives (a wish to improve women´s conditions in society) that incentivizes them to pursue a slightly different political agenda than their male counterparts and push for public service delivery in those sectors of society affecting female citizens the most.