WOMEN IN LEGISLATURES

Numbers: 

• Total: The 17th Lok Sabha will have the highest number of women representatives ever with 78 women elected as MPs. 
  
  
• Party-wise breakup: With 40 women MPs, BJP has sent the largest number of elected women representatives to Lok Sabha because of the sheer size of its victory. It is followed by Trinamool Congress (9), Congress (6), BJD (5) and YSRCP (4). 
  
  

Share: 

• Numbers: They will account for 14.39% of the entire strength of the Lower House, which was at 12.5% with a total 65 women MPs in the previous Lok Sabha.
  
  
• Party-wise breakup: However, the regional parties that boast of a higher ratio of women MPs. Women account for 41.6% of BJD’s total strength in Lok Sabha and 40.9% of TMC’s strength in the House. TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee and BJD Chief Naveen Patnaik had pledged to give tickets to 40% and 30% of party candidates before the elections started.
  
  

Winnability Factor:

• Women candidates also displayed a higher winnability factor or strike rate. A higher success rate or winnability factor shown by women candidates is consistent with the past record.
  
  
• The 78 elected women MPs emerged winners out of the total 716 women candidates who fought during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, which is a success rate of 10.89%. This is much higher than the success rate shown by male candidates of 6.41%.