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LOK SABHA ELECTIONS 2019

Category wise Constituencies

(PC WISE)
Legacy Information
Legal Provisions/ Guidelines  For the first two elections, multi-member constituency system was in place.

 Article 330 of the Constitution of India mandates that number of seats reserved Since 1962 elections, independent reserved constituency system has been
in any State or UT for Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes shall bear, as nearly followed.
as maybe, the same proportion to the total number of seats allotted to the State  In the first election, 72 seats were reserved for SCs and 26 seats were
or UT in the House as the population of Scheduled Castes in the State or UT or of reserved for STs.
Scheduled Tribes in the State or UT, as the case maybe, in respect of which seats  In Lok Sabha elections, against such seats any member of SCs or STs, as
are so reserved, bears to the total population of the State or UT. the case may be, may contest that election.

 In Legislative Assembly elections, such members must be from the concerned
state only.

T3.1 Number of Parliamentary Seats
General
State/UT SC Seats ST Seats Total Seats
Seats
Andaman & Nicobar
Islands 1 0 0 1
Andhra Pradesh 20 4 1 25

Arunachal Pradesh 2 0 0 2

Assam 11 1 2 14
Bihar 34 6 0 40

Chandigarh 1 0 0 1

Chhattisgarh 6 1 4 11

Dadra & Nagar Haveli 0 0 1 1
Daman & Diu 1 0 0 1

Goa 2 0 0 2

Gujarat 20 2 4 26
Together we Vote, together we Win, Ladakh
Haryana 8 2 0 10
Himachal Pradesh 3 1 0 4

Jammu & Kashmir 6 0 0 6

Jharkhand 8 1 5 14
Karnataka 21 5 2 28

Kerala 18 2 0 20

Lakshadweep 0 0 1 1
Madhya Pradesh 19 4 6 29

Maharashtra 39 5 4 48

Manipur 1 0 1 2

Meghalaya 0 0 2 2
Mizoram 0 0 1 1

Nagaland 1 0 0 1

NCT of Delhi 6 1 0 7

Odisha 13 3 5 21
Vibrant Festival of Democracy, Bihar
Puducherry 1 0 0 1

Punjab 9 4 0 13
Fact
Rajasthan 18 4 3 25
Sikkim 1 0 0 1 There are 84 seats reserved for SC category and 47 seats reserved for ST
category in the country. States with no seats reserved for Scheduled Castes
Tamil Nadu 32 7 0 39
and Scheduled Tribes: Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh,
Telangana 12 3 2 17 Chandigarh, Daman and Diu, Goa, Jammu and Kashmir, Nagaland,
Puducherry and Sikkim.
Tripura 1 0 1 2
Uttarakhand 4 1 0 5

Uttar Pradesh 63 17 0 80

West Bengal 30 10 2 42

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