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Total Candidate Nominations

Legal Provisions/ Guidelines T27.2 Nomination Data 1951-52 Elections T27.4 Nomination Data 2019 Elections

 As per section 32 of the Representation of the People Act 1951, State / UTs Filed State/UT Filed in 2014 Filed in 2019
any person may be nominated as a candidate for election to fill Nominations
a seat if s/he is qualified to be chosen to fill that seat under the Assam 46 Andaman & Nicobar 22 19
provisions of the Constitution and this Act or under the provision Bihar 263 Islands
of the Government of Union Territories Act 1963. The detailed Bombay 223 Andhra Pradesh 791 450
procedure for calling for nomination of candidates is given in Madhya Pradesh 196
Part V Chapter I of the RP Act 1951.The process of nomination Madras 441 Arunachal Pradesh 11 12
starts from the date of notification issued under section 12 to 16 Odisha 78 Assam 182 167
(as applicable) under Part III of this Act.
Punjab 172
 Nomination papers are filed by the candidate himself/ herself Uttar Pradesh 575 Bihar 709 902
or by his/ her proposer on or before the last date of filing West Bengal 198
of nominations between 11.00am to 03.00pm before the Hyderabad 92 Chandigarh 21 45
Returning Officer at the place specified in the notification.
The nomination paper in the prescribed form is signed by Madhya Bharat 69 Chhattisgarh 278 211
the candidate and proposed by a registered voter in the Mysore 50
Constituency in case of candidates sponsored by recognized Patiala and East Punjab 53 Dadra & Nagar Haveli 14 13
National or State Party. In the case of Independent candidates States Union Daman & Diu 5 7
or a candidate of unrecognized Political Party, ten electors Rajasthan 136
subscribed to the nomination paper as proposers. Saurashtra 24
Goa 24 16
 Under section 33 of the Representation of the People Act, Travancore-Cochin 59
1951, the nomination of a candidate at election to the House Ajmer 11 Gujarat 509 569
of the People or a State Legislative Assembly shall be required Bhopal 11
to be subscribed by- Bilaspur 4 Haryana 299 303
i. One elector of the constituency, as proposer, if the candidate Coorg 3
has been set up either by a recognized National party or by Delhi 31 Himachal Pradesh 50 55
a recognized State party in the State or States in which it is Himachal Pradesh 13
recognized as State party (see Part-I of Forms 2A and 2B) Jammu & Kashmir 103 106
Kutch 8
ii. Ten (10) electors of the constituency, as proposers, if the Manipur 18 Jharkhand 267 315
candidate has been set up by a registered un-recognized Tripura 13
political party or if he is an independent candidate
Vindhya Pradesh 46 Karnataka 589 638
 Under section 34 of the RP Act 1951, every candidate for Total Nominations Filed 2833
election to a Parliamentary Constituency has to deposit an Kerala 391 303
amount of Rs 25000/- as security deposit with the Returning
Officer in cash or in Reserve Bank or a Government Treasury. T27.3 Nomination Data 1977 Elections Lakshadweep 9 7
For election to the Legislative Assembly, this amount is State / UTs Filed
Rs.10000/-. For candidates belonging to SC/ ST the deposit Nominations Madhya Pradesh 447 547
amount is Rs 12500/- and 5000/- respectively. A candidate Andaman & Nicobar 8
can file a maximum of four sets of nomination papers. Islands Maharashtra 1,458 1,332
Andhra Pradesh 293
Manipur 18 19
Arunachal Pradesh 4
Legacy Information Assam 51 Meghalaya 10 11
Bihar 524
In 1951-52 elections, 2833 nominations were filed Chandigarh 21 Mizoram 4 6
across the country.
Dadra & Nagar Haveli 5
In 1977 elections, 4392 nominations were filed across Goa, Daman and Diu 24 Nagaland 4 4
the country.
Gujarat 202
In 2014 elections, of the 11320 nominations filed across Haryana 106 NCT of Delhi 207 347
the country.
Himachal Pradesh 25 Odisha 206 205
In 2019 elections, of the 11692 nominations filed across Jammu & Kashmir 62
the country.
Karnataka 219 Puducherry 41 30
Kerala 105
Lakshadweep 3 Punjab 347 359
Madhya Pradesh 310
Fact Maharashtra 446 Rajasthan 451 345

Manipur 13 Sikkim 6 11
Nizamabad PC in Telengana received the highest number Meghalaya 13
of nominations at 203 while Tura, Meghalaya received the Mizoram 4 Tamil Nadu 1,355 1,290
lowest with only 3 candidate nominations!
Nagaland 4
NCT of Delhi 73 Telangana 0 645
T27.1 Total Nominations filed (2019) Odisha 77
Tripura 25 28
Puducherry 6
Total Nominations filed in 2019 Number of PCs
Punjab 167
1-4 3 Uttar Pradesh 1,876 1,780
Rajasthan 216
5-15 184
Sikkim 8 Uttarakhand 96 65
16-31 271
Tamil Nadu 407
32-47 68 Tripura 11 West Bengal 495 530
48-63 14 Uttar Pradesh 757
64-79 1 West Bengal 228 Total Nominations filed 11,320 11,692
80 and above 2 Total Nominations filed 4,392

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