Representation of women in Lok Sabha from Kerala
GENERALELECTIONS-09
Backgrounder-41
There
are 15 women among 217 contestants in poll fray from Kerala in General Elections
for the Fifteenth Lok Sabha. Representation of women in the successive Lok Sabhas from Kerala State has
remained between1and 2. Ms. Annie Mascarene was the first woman to represent
Kerala in the Lok Sabha. She was elected to the First Lok Sabha in 1952 as an independent
candidate from Trivandrum constituency.
In the Second and Third Lok
Sabha there was no woman representative from
Kerala. In the 1967 General Elections Ms.
Suseela Gopalan from CPM got
elected from the Ambalapuzha constituency for the Fourth
Lok Sabha. She won elections for the Seventh and Tenth Lok Sabha also from Alleppey and Chirayinkil constituencies repectively.
In
the Fifth Lok Sabha, it
was Ms. K. Bhargavi of CPI who represented Kerala
from Adoor constituency.
Ms.
Savithri Lakshmanan from
INC got elected twice i.e., for the Nineth and Tenth
Lok Sabha from Mukundapuram constituency.
The other woman who was elected twice for the Lok
Sabha was Ms. A. K. Premajam
from CPM. She was member of the Twelfth
and Thirteenth Lok Sabha
from Badagara constituency.
Fourteenth
Lok Sabha had two women
members from Kerala namely, Ms. P. Satheedevi from
Badagara constituency and Ms. C.S. Sujatha
from Mavelikara Constituency, both from CPM.
Participation
of women contestants from Kerala in Lok Sabha elections has increased from 1 to 15. The Tenth and Fourteenth Lok
Sabha had the highest representation of women from
Kerala with 2 members, which is the 10% of the total strength of Kerala in
Lok Sabha. Partywise, it was
CPM which had the highest number of women Lok Sabha members from Kerala i.e., 7 out of 11.
PERFORMANCE
OF WOMEN CANDIDATES IN KERALA FROM FIRST TO FIFTEENTH LOK SABHA ELECTIONS:
|
Year
|
Total
no. of seats
|
Total
no. of women contestants
|
Total
no. of women elected
|
Percentage
to the total seats
|
|
First -1952
(Travancore
Cohin)
|
11
|
-
|
1
|
9.09
|
|
Second
-1957
|
16
|
1
|
0
|
Nil
|
|
Third -1962
|
18
|
1
|
0
|
Nil
|
|
Fourth -1967
|
19
|
3
|
1
|
5.26
|
|
Fifth -1971
|
19
|
4
|
1
|
5.26
|
|
Sixth -1977
|
20
|
3
|
0
|
Nil
|
|
Seventh
-1980
|
20
|
2
|
1
|
5
|
|
Eighth
-1984
|
20
|
7
|
0
|
Nil
|
|
Nineth -1989
|
20
|
8
|
1
|
5
|
|
Tenth
-1991
|
20
|
10
|
2
|
10
|
|
Eleventh
-1996
|
20
|
10
|
0
|
Nil
|
|
Twelfth
-1998
|
20
|
10
|
1
|
5
|
|
Thirteenth
-1999
|
20
|
13
|
1
|
5
|
|
Fourteenth
-2004
|
20
|
15
|
2
|
10
|
|
Fifteenth-2009
|
20
|
15
|
-
|
-
|
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BSC/BY/G5-5.5.09
(Release ID :48615)