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Saturday, May 25, 2019

17th Lok Sabha Will Have a Record 78 Women Parliamentarians(62 in 2014)

There were 8,000-plus candidates that contested this Lok Sabha election, of which around 700-plus were women. 




78 of these women have been elected to the Parliament -- a slight increase from the 2014 polls where 62 women parliamentarians were elected. 

Out of the total 29 states, women MPs were elected from 22, leaving seven states with no female representation in the Parliament. The seven states are Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland and Sikkim.

Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal have elected the highest number of women MPs with 11 candidates each. These states include prominent women leaders like Bahujan Samaj Party’s chief Mayawati and West Bengal’s chief minister Mamata Banerjee. UP and Bengal are followed by eight women MPs in Maharashtra, seven in Odisha and six in Gujarat

Odisha elected seven women candidates, five of whom were from the Biju Janata Dal, a state political party.


Of the 5 BJD MP's,Chandrani Murmu who was elected from Keonjhar at 25 years,11 months & 8days as on Friday May 24,2019 becomes the youngest ever MP in the Lok Sabha




The other two candidates are members of the BJP



The six women MPs elected from Gujarat are all from the BJP. 

States that elected four women MPs each are Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. In the former, all four women are from the YSR Congress party. The four women parliamentarians from Madhya Pradesh are from the BJP. 

Three women candidates each were elected from Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu. In Bihar, one each was elected from BJP, JD(U) and LJP. In Chattisgarh, two candidates are from the BJP and one from the Congress. 

All three women from Rajasthan are from the BJP, while Tamil Nadu has two from DMK and one from Congress

திமுகவை சேர்ந்த கனிமொழி, தமிழச்சி தங்கபாண்டியன் மற்றும் காங்கிரஸின் ஜோதிமணி 

Jharkhand, Karnataka and Punjab also elected two women MPs each. The candidates from Jharkhand are one each from BJP and Congress. In Karnataka, an independent woman candidate and a Congress candidate won. In Punjab, one from Akali Dal and one from the Congress won. 

Five states and a UT, namely Uttarakhand, Telangana, Kerala, Haryana, Delhi and Chandigarh elected one woman MP each


From Alathur Lok Sabha constituency in Kerala, Ramya Haridas is the second Dalit female MP from the state. Kerala follows its 2014 trend of just one woman MP being elected from the state.

Of the eight states in the northeast constituting a total of 25 seats, three women were elected in 2019, which is one more than the last general elections. Of these, two are members of the BJP and one is from the National People’s Party (NPP). From the ruling NPP in Meghalaya, Agatha Sangma won from the Tura parliamentary seat by a margin of 64,030 votes. She comes to power after defeating former chief minister of the state, Mukul Sangma, of the Congress. 

In terms of political parties, the BJP has the maximum number of winning women MPs — 41 among all political parties. This partly has to do with the fact that the party won with a clear majority on its own by securing 303 seats. 

West Bengal


  1. Mimi Chakraborty, Jadavpur - AITC
  2. Aparupa Poddar, Arambag - AITC
  3. Locket Chatterjee, Hooghly - AITC
  4. Pratima Mondal, Joynagar - AITC
  5. Sajda Ahmed, Uluberia - AITC
  6. Sougata Roy, Dum Dum - AITC
  7. Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Barasat - AITC
  8. Mala Roy, Kolkata Dakshin - AITC
  9. Mahua Moitra, Krishnanagar - AITC
  10. Deboshree Chowdhury, Raiganj - BJP
  11. Nusrat Jahan Ruhi, Basirhat - AITC
  12. Satabdi Roy (Bannerjee), Birbhum - AITC

Uttar Pradesh


  1. Anupriya Patel, Mirzapur - Apna Dal
  2. Sonia Gandhi, Rae Bareli - INC
  3. Sanghmitra Maurya, Badaun - BJP
  4. Keshari Patel, Phulpur - BJP
  5. Smriti Irani, Amethi - BJP
  6. Hema Malini, Mathura - BJP
  7. Maneka Gandhi, Sultanpur - BJP
  8. Rita Bahuguna Joshi, Prayagraj - BJP
  9. Niranjan Jyoti, Fatehpur - BJP
  10. Rekha Verma, Dhaurahra - BJP
  11. Sangeeta Azad, Lalganj - BSP


Maharashtra


  1. Poonam Mahajan, Mumbai North Central - BJP
  2. Heena Vijayakumar Gavit, Nandurbhar - BJP
  3. Bhavana Gawali, Yavatmal-Washim - Shivsena
  4. Bharati Pravin Pawar, Dindori - BJP
  5. Supriya Sule, Baramati - NCP
  6. Pritam Munde, Beed - BJP
  7. Raksha Khadse, Raver - BJP
  8. Navnit Rana, Amravati - Independent (NCP support)

Orissa


  1. Aparajita Sarangi, Bhubaneswar - BJP
  2. Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo, Bolangir -BJP
  3. Pratima Bisoyi, Aska - BJD
  4. Rajashree Mallick, Jagatsinghpur - BJD
  5. Manjulata Mandal, Bhadrak - BJD
  6. Chandrani Murmu, Keonjhar - BJD
  7. Sarmistha Sethi,Jajpur - BJD

Gujarat


  1. Bharati Ben Shiyal, Bhavnagar - BJP
  2. Geetaben Rathva, Chhota Udaipur - BJP
  3. Poonamben Maadam, Jamnagar - BJP
  4. Darshana Jardosh, Surat - BJP
  5. Ranjanben Bhatt, Vadodara - BJP
  6. Shardaben Anilbhai Patel, Mahesana - BJP

Andhra Pradesh


  1. Chinta Anuradha, Amalapuram - YSCRP
  2. Goddeti Madhavi, Aruku - YSCRP
  3. Vanga Geethaviswanath, Kakinada - YSCRP
  4. Beesetti Venkata Satyavathi, Anakapalli - YSCRP

Madhya Pradesh


  1. Pragya Singh Thakur, Bhopal - BJP
  2. Sandhya Ray, Bhind - BJP
  3. Riti Pathak, Sidhi - BJP
  4. Himadri Singh, Shahdol - BJP

Chattisgarh


  1. Jyotsna Mahant, Korba - INC
  2. Gomtee Sai, Raigarh - BJP
  3. Renuka Singh, Sarguja - BJP

Bihar


  1. Rama Devi, Sheohar - BJP
  2. Veena Devi, Vaishali - LJP
  3. Kavita Singh, Siwan - JD(U)

Rajasthan


  1. Ranjeeta Kohli, Bharatpur - BJP
  2. Jas Kaur Meena, Dausa - BJP
  3. Diya Kumari, Rajsamand - BJP

Tamil Nadu

  1. Kanimozhi Karunanidhi, Thoothukudi - DMK
  2. Thamizhachi Thangapandian (Sumathy), Chennai South - DMK
  3. Jothimani Sennimalai, Karur - INC

Karnataka


  1. Sumalatha Ambareesh, Mandya - Independent (BJP support)
  2. Shobha Karandlaje, Udupi Chikmagalur - BJP

Jharkhand


  1. Annapurna Devi, Kodarma - BJP
  2. Geeta Kora, Singhbhum- INC

Tripura


  1. Pratima Bhowmik, Tripura West - BJP

Haryana


  1. Suneeta Duggal, Sirsa - BJP

Meghalaya


  1. Agatha K Sangma, Tura - NPP

Assam


  1. Queen Ojha, Gauhati - BJP

Kerala


  1. Remya Haridas, Alathur - INC

Punjab


  1. Preneet Kaur, Patiala - INC

Telangana


  1. Maloth Kavitha, Mahabubabad - TRS

Uttarakhand


  1. Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah, Tehri Garhwa - BJP

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