Women In Parliament: 2024 Sees Dip With Over 30 MPs, 14 Hailing From South India

Published: Wednesday, June 5, 2024, 16:37 [IST]

Out of the 797 women who contested in the 2024 elections, only over 30 candidates managed to secure seats.

Amidst discussions about the Women's Reservation Bill and the representation of women, their presence in the Parliament is poised to be lower than in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, where 78 women candidates emerged victorious.

Women In Parliament 2024 Sees Dip With Over 30 MPs 14 Hailing From South India

Big Winners
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav's wife and Mainpuri's incumbent MP Dimple Yadav achieved a comfortable victory over her nearest rival BJP's Jayveer Singh, with a margin of 2,21,639 votes.

Misa Bharti, daughter of RJD leader Lalu Prasad Yadav, defeated Union minister and incumbent MP Ram Kripal Yadav in Bihar's Pataliputra constituency by a margin of 85,174 votes.

Trinamool Congress candidate Mahua Moitra won the Krishnanagar seat in West Bengal by 56,705 votes. DMK's Kanimozhi Karunanidhi retained her Thoothukkudi seat, securing 5,40,729 votes.

Samajwadi Party's 25-year-old Priya Saroj from Machhlishahr and 29-year-old Iqra Choudhary from Kairana were among the youngest candidates to secure victories.

However, the Election Commission is yet to release the data on the women candidates who emerged victorious in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

Notably, Kerala, often regarded as a progressive state, has failed to send a woman representative to the Lok Sabha.

Kerala Fails To Send Women MPs To Parliament
Despite nine women candidates contesting in the general election from Kerala, including UDF's Ramya Haridas, LDF's K K Shylaja, Annie Raja, K J Shine, and NDA's Sobha Surendran, T N Sarassu, Sangeetha Viswanathan, M L Ashwini, and Niveditha Subrahmanian, none succeeded in making it to Parliament.

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