With increasingly more ladies participation in electoral workout routines, the 2024 Lok Sabha elections noticed 800 ladies candidates contesting throughout 390 parliamentary constituencies, the higher-ever because the second normal elections in 1957, confirmed an evaluation of the information launched by the Election Fee just lately.
With 800 ladies candidates within the fray, this additionally led to a decline within the variety of seats having no ladies candidate to its lowest-ever of 152. Comparable information was unavailable for 1951 and 1971. Over time, nevertheless, the variety of ladies candidates has been on the rise.
Ladies candidates contested in 372 seats in 2019, 377 in 2014, and 332 in 2009. In 2004, ladies candidates had been in fray in lower than half (249 of 543 seats) the nation’s parliamentary seats. The determine was even beneath 200 within the Eighties, when ladies candidates contested simply 127 to 146 seats of the 543 seats. Within the 1957 LS polls, solely 37 seats had ladies candidates.
Based on the ballot panel, a complete of 8,360 candidates contested in 2024.
Based on EC information, no ladies candidate was in fray in 152 constituencies of the 543 constituencies, down from 171 in 2019 and 166 in 2014. (see chart).
Of the constituencies having no feminine candidate in 2024 LS polls, the best of 30 was in UP, adopted by Bihar (15) and Gujarat (14). Within the 2024 LS polls, 167 constituencies noticed not less than one lady candidate. There have been two ladies candidates in 119 seats, 3 in 59 seats, 4 in 25 seats, 5 in 10 seats, 6 in 5 seats, 7 in 2 seats, and eight in three seats.
Three constituencies — Baramati, Secunderabad, and Warangal — had the best variety of ladies candidates at eight.
Of the 800 ladies candidates this yr, solely 74 gained and 629 misplaced their deposits, information confirmed.
Increasingly more ladies are popping out to vote, and in reality they once more outnumbered males in exercising their franchise in 2024, in continuation of a development from 2019. Based on the ballot panel, 65.78% of girls voters solid their votes in 2024 (excluding Surat) as in comparison with 65.55% males. “Females outnumbered males in 2024 once more like in 2019; that is solely the second time within the historical past of GEs to Lok Sabha,” the EC famous.
Assam’s Dhubri seat recorded the best ladies voter turnout of 92.17%, adopted by Tamluk (West Bengal) at 87.57%, in response to EC. The variety of registered ladies voters stood at 47.63 crore of whole 97.97 crore electors in 2024 LS polls, in comparison with 43.85 crore ladies electors in 2019. In 2024, variety of feminine voters per 1,000 male voters noticed a brand new excessive of 946, as towards 926 in 2019, EC famous.
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