Lok Sabha Election Results 2014: Victory and Defeat of Women Candidates

Updated: Friday, May 16, 2014, 20:11 [IST]

Bangalore, May 16: Despite all the claims of giving greater representation to women in 2014 Lok Sabha elections, of the total 1325 candidates fielded by the three major political parties (Congress, BJP, and AAP) just about 12 per cent happen to be women. Total 631 women candidates contested in the recently concluded election.

Despite such low presence of women in Indian politics, the brightest performances in the 16th Lok Sabha elections came from two parties which are headed by women. Trinamool Congress in West Bengal, led by Mamata Banerjee, and AIADMK in Tamil Nadu, led by Jayalalithaa, registered landslide victory in their respective states.

So far, TMC has won 26 seats in West Bengal. In 2009 general elections, TMC had won 19 seats. In Tamil Nadu, of the 39 seats, AIADMK won 37. In 2009, they had won just 9 seats.

Women also hold a very prominent positions in Indian politics and Congress President Sonia Gandhi, BJP senior Sushma Swaraj, scoial activist Medha Patkar and many more are among them.

Check the women candidates list -- who won and who lost:

No.	Name	Party	Constituency	Result	votes
1	Sonia Gandhi	Congress	Rae Bareli, UP	Won
2	Sushma Swaraj	BJP	Vidisha, MP	Won
3	Smriti Irani	BJP	Amethi, UP	Lost
4	Kirron Kher	BJP	Chandigarh	Won
5	Hema Malini	BJP	Mathura, UP	Won
6	Gul Panag	AAP	Chandigarh	Lost
7	Rakhi Sawant	Independent	Mumbai North-West	Lost
8	Poonam Mahajan	BJP	Mumbai North-Central	Won
9	Priya Dutt	Congress	Mumbai North-Central	Lost
10	Shazia Ilmi	AAP	Ghaziabad, UP	Lost
11	Ramya	Congress	Mandya, Karnataka	Lost
12	Neena Naik	AAP	Bangalore South	Lost
13	Meenakshi Lekhi	BJP	New Delhi	Won
14	Deepa Dasmunshi	Congress	Raigunj, WB	Lost
15	Shatabdi	TMC	Birbhum, West Bengal	Won
16	Moon Moon Sen	TMC	Bankura, WB	Won
17	Uma Bharti	BJP	Faziabad, UP	Won
18	Rita Bahuguna Joshi	Congress	Lucknow, UP	Lost
19	Medha Patkar	AAP	Mumbai North-East	Lost
20	Supriya Sule	NCP	Baramati, Maharashtra	Won
21	Misa Bharti	RJD	Pataliputra, Bihar	Lost
22	Nagma	Congress	Meerut, UP	Lost
23	Preneet kaur	Congress	Patiala, Punjab	Lost
24	Vijayamma	YSR Congress	Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh	Lost
25	Maneka Gandhi	BJP	Pilibhit, UP	Won
26	Soni Sori	AAP	Bastar, Chhattisgarh	Lost
27	Anjali Damania	AAP	Nagpur, Maharashtra	Lost
28	Rabri Devi	RJD	Saran, Bihar	Lost