Chhattisgarh – INFO Sheet
GENERAL ELECTIONS – 2009
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| Total
Parliamentary Constituencies | 11 |
| Date
of Polling | 16th
April |
Size of Electorate:
| General Election:2004 | General Election:2009 |
| Men | Women | Total | Men
| Women | Total |
| 6,904,742 | 6,814,700 | 13,719,442 | 7,858,754 | 7,635,027 | 15,493,781 |
No. of Polling Stations:
| General Election:2004 | General Election:2009 |
| 15,669 | 20,985 |
No. of Contesting Candidates:
| General Election:2004 | General Election:2009 |
| 102 | 178 |
No. of Contesting Women Candidates:
| General Election:2004 | General Election:2009 |
| 12 | 15 |
Name of Parties and No. of Contesting
Candidates:
| General Election:2004 | General Election:2009 |
| Name of Party | No. of Contesting Candidates | Name of Party | No. of Contesting Candidates |
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 11 | Bharatiya Janata Party | 11 |
| Bahujan Samaj Party | 11 | Bahujan Samaj Party | 11 |
| Indian
National Congress | 11 | Indian
National Congress | 11
|
| Communist
Party of India | 1 | Communist
Party of India | 1 |
| Communist
Party of India (Marxist) | 1
| Communist
Party of India (Marxist) | 1
|
| Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 1 | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 6 |
| Lok Jan Shakti Party | 1 | Lok Jan Shakti Party | 3 |
| Janata Dal(United) | 1 | Janata Dal(United) | 1 |
| Samajwadi Party | 10 | Chattisgarh Vikas Party | 7 |
| Gondwana Ganatantra Party | 5 | Gondwana Ganatantra Party | 5 |
| Chattisgarh Samaj Party | 3 | Chattisgarh Samaj Party | 3 |
| Republican
Party of India(KH) | 1 | Republican
Party of India(A) | 3 |
| Apana DaL | 3 | Apana Dal | 2 |
| Indian
Justice Party | 1 | Bharatiya Pichhra Dal | 2 |
| Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha | 2 | Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha | 1 |
| Bharatiya Prajatantrik Shuddha Gandhiwadi Krishak Dal | 1 | Eklavya Samaj Party | 1 |
| Yuwa Ganatanta Party | 1 | Gondwana Mukti Sena | 1 |
| Samata Party | 1 | Lok Bharti | 1 |
| Communist Party of India(Marxist-Leninist)(Liberation) | 1 | Pyramid
Party of India | 1 |
| Loktantric Samajawadi Party | 1 | Loktantric Samajawadi Party | 1 |
| - | - | Soshit Samaj Dal | 1 |
| - | - | Sundar Samaj Party | 1 |
| - | - | Shakti Sena (Bharat
Desh) | 1 |
| - | - | Rashtriya Godwana Party | 1 |
| - | - | Republican
Party of India | 1 |
| - | - | Jai
Chattisgarh Party | 1 |
| - | - | Chattisgarh Vikas Party | 1 |
| - | - | Akhil Bharatiya SindhuSamajwadi
party | 1 |
| Independent | 34 | Independent | 97 |
| Total | 102 | Total | 178 |
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OK/HK/MR/KKA/14-5-2009
(Release ID :48704)