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ELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIA

Gender-wise Elected Candidates (PC-WISE)

T41.1 State wise Elected Candidates [Gender-wise] in 2024 T41.2 Share (%) of Female Candidates [1957 – 2024]
No. of Elected Candidates Women elected
State / UT Year of GEs Women Contestants over Total seats
Female Male Total
No. % No. %
A & N Islands 1 1
Andhra Pradesh 3 22 25 1957 45 3.0 22 4.5
Arunachal Pradesh 2 2 1962 66 3.3 31 6.3
Assam 1 13 14 1967 67 2.8 29 5.6
Bihar 5 35 40 1971 61 2.2 29 5.6
Chandigarh 1 1 1977 70 2.9 19 3.5
Chhattisgarh 3 8 11 1980 143 3.1 28 5.3
DNH and D&D 1 1 2 1984-85 171 3.1 43 7.9
Goa 2 2 1989 198 3.2 29 5.5
Gujarat 4 22 26 1991-92 330 3.8 39 7.3
Haryana 1 9 10 1996 599 4.3 40 7.4
Himachal Pradesh 1 3 4
1998 274 5.8 43 7.9
Jammu and Kashmir 5 5
1999 284 6.1 49 9.0
Jharkhand 2 12 14
Karnataka 3 25 28 2004 355 6.5 45 8.3
Kerala 20 20 2009 556 6.9 59 10.9
Ladakh 1 1 2014 668 8.0 62 11.4
Lakshadweep 1 1 2019 726 9.0 78 14.4
Madhya Pradesh 6 23 29 2024 800 9.6 74 13.6
Maharashtra 7 41 48
Manipur 2 2 Fact
Meghalaya 2 2
Mizoram 1 1 l In 2024, highest number of Female Contesting candidate was in
Nagaland 1 1 Maharashtra [111] followed by Uttar Pradesh [80] and Tamil Nadu
NCT of Delhi 2 5 7 [77] respectively.
Odisha 4 17 21 l 5 State/ UTs having highest share (%) of Elected Female candidates
Puducherry 1 1 were: Tripura - 50.0%, DNH and D&D – 50.0%, NCT of Delhi - 28.6%,
Punjab 1 12 13 Chhattisgarh – 27.3% and West Bengal – 26.2%.
Rajasthan 3 22 25
l There were no Female Contesting candidates in 152 PCs out of all
Sikkim 1 1
543 PC.
Tamil Nadu 5 34 39
Telangana 2 15 17
Tripura 1 1 2
Uttar Pradesh 7 73 80
Uttarakhand 1 4 5
West Bengal 11 31 42
All India 74 469 543

Graph 41.1: Share (%) of Female Candidates [1957 – 2024]

Share of Female Candidates in GEs [1957 – 2024]
16.0
14.4
14.0
12.0 9.0 10.9 11.4 13.6
Percentage (%) 8.0 6.3 5.6 5.6 5.3 7.9 5.5 7.3 7.4 7.9 8.3 8.0 9.0 9.6
10.0

6.0 4.5
4.0 2.2 3.5 3.1 4.3 5.8 6.1 6.5 6.9
2.0 3.3 3.2 3.8
3.0 2.8 2.9 3.1
0.0
1957 1962 1967 1971 1977 1980 1984-85 1989 1991-92 1996 1998 1999 2004 2009 2014 2019 2024

Year of General Elections
% of Women Contestants % of Women elected over total seats

103