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Mandat e Analysis: Gener al Elec t ions 20 14 May 26 , 20 14

BY: Khyati Srivastava (UP) [email protected] Page 1

Gender participation in 2014 Mahasangram.

Komal hai kamzor nahi, Shakti ka naam hi nari hai!

India is a country where Nation is respected as Mother India. The country trapped bydogmatic customs, but still the youngest democracy of the world that gave voting rights to

women since its formation. However, the manuwadi culture and dogmatic customs that hasbeen followed in all sections and communities of our society since so many years has held itsroots so deep that we are still reviving our social system and give women their deservedstatus. When Indian elections happen to be no less than big fat Indian weddings, women alsohave their crucial in Indian democracy.Here we shall see this role in two aspects, one their voter turnout, and second participation inpower, in special reference to General Elections 2014.

1. Women voter turnout:Gender-wise voter turnout break-up figures were not accounted before 1967. Separatevoter turnout gender-based was considered from the 1967 General elections, when it

was learnt that inspite of giving voting rights, it is a very small percentage that uses it.

GeneralElections

Male % Turnout Female %turnout

Total % turnout

4th 1967 66.73 55.48 61.33

5th 1971 60.09 49.11 55.27

6th 1977 65.63 54.91 60.49

7th 1980 62.16 51.22 56.92

8th 1984-85 61.2 58.6 64.01

9th 1989 66.13 57.32 61.95

10th 1991-92 61.58 51.35 55.88

11th 1996 62.06 53.41 57.94

12th 1998 65.72 57.88 61.97

13th 1999 63.97 55.64 59.99

14th 2004 61.66 53.3 58.07

15th 2009 60.24 55.82 58.21

16th 2014 67.09 65.3 66.4

We these figures are analysed, then several derivation can be made, as under :

The voter turnout in India has gone-up. It was the highest voter turnout in 2014.

After all, 2014 general elections were celebrated all across the nation as a festival. The most significant achievement noted in 2014 General elections was the

tremendously increased women voter turnout. It was also the highest this

time India witnessed.

Women turnout in India till now could hardly touch the score of 60% turnout, but this

time it straight forward jumped to 65.3%

Source: Election Commission of India website.


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Mandate Analysis: General Elections 2014

BY: Khyati Srivastava (UP) kh

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difference between both en

brought it down to the

they were low at 2.6%, cou

the women of India come o

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General Elections Differenfemale

4th 1967 11.25

5th 1971 10.98

6th 1977 10.72

7th 1980 10.94

8th 1984-85 2.6

9th 1989 8.8 10th 1991-92 10.23

11th 1996 8.65

12th 1998 7.84

13th 1999 8.33

14th 2004 8.36

15th 2009 4.42

16th 2014 1.79

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er turnout, female turnout has never b

ds has generally been around 10%. 201

lowest score of 1.79%. Before this in

ld be said that the demise of the Iron Lad

t to vote.

hows the male-female participation i

n are coming almost at par in the soc

ale turnout are observed, then 2014 el

the highest increase in female tur

cipation in voting was recording in 1984-

Smt Indira Gandhi.

8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14

Male % Female % Total %

e in Male- Change in femalevoter% turnout

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-6.37 -11.

5.80 11.8

-3.69 -6.7

7.38 14.4

-1.28 -2.1-5.97 -10.

2.06 4.01

4.47 8.37

-2.24 -3.8

-2.34 -4.2

2.52 4.73

9.48 16.9

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2. Women RepresentationIndia is a nation that consipower-sharing. It is the la

of Jhansi and Savitri Bai Phhave been kept deprived oHowever, Indian democthem position at par withings for them. Especifor the Nation, and shthen the hindrances ar

The trends of women repr

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General Elections Total c

1957 15191962 1985

1967 2369

1971 2784

1977 2439

1980 4629

1984-85 5492

1989 6160

1991-92 8749

1996 13952

1998 4750

1999 46482004 5435

2009 8070

2014 8251

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in Lok Sabha: ers women to play a very vital role in dec

d Goddess Durga and Gargi, Maitri. The m

ule. Due to certain orthodox and evil custothese rights and powers.

racy has opened all gateways forth men. But due the social structure tlly when it comes to participation in

aring power representing people atboth ways, intrinsic as well as extrin

sentation in Lok Sabha are as under :

0th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th

e in female turnout %agechange

in female

turnout

ontestants Male contestants Female co

1474 451919 66

2302 67

2698 86

2369 70

4486 143

5321 171

5962 198

8419 330

13353 599

4476 274

4364 2845080 355

7514 556

7578 668

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No doubt motivation in w1957 to 2014. But it has bincrease means no greatwomen has risen many-folbetween men-women numbneeds revival.

Perhaps, the rising graphof hope. But it has increaspect efforts from the einternally and externally.

Now if see the number ofat Lok Sabha, we can get thence derived are below :

GeneralElections

Seats MenElected

Malerepr

1957 494 472 96.5

1962 494 463 93.7

1967 520 491 94.4

1971 518 497 95.9

1977 542 523 96.4

1980 542 514 94.8

1984-85 542 500 92.2

1989 543 514 94.6

1991-92 543 496 91.3

1996 543 503 92.6

1998 543 500 92.0

1999 543 494 90.92004 543 498 91.7

2009 543 484 89.1

2014 543 482 88.7

Here we can clearly see thvery low as compared torepresentation in 16th L

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omen to contestant elections has signieen tremendously lower than that ofsuccess, because since 1957participations. All thanks to the democratic structure.ers fighting for power signifies that the soc

of women participation in the quest fse may-folds to meet at par with men.ntire society. Indian women have to b

ale-female elected out of these who fighteir winnability on comparing the figures a

%

senationMenWinnability

WomenElected

FemaleRepresena

32.02 22 4.45

24.13 31 6.28

21.33 29 5.58

18.42 21 4.05

22.08 19 3.51

11.46 28 5.17

9.4 43 7.93

8.62 29 5.34

5.89 38 7.00

3.77 40 7.37

11.17 43 7.92

11.32 49 9.029.8 45 8.29

6.44 59 10.87

6.36 61 11.23

t women representation in the Lok Sabhaen. However, we can see a rising trek Sabha constituted in 2014.

le-Female Contestants

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icantly risen sincemen. Hence thisof both men &

But the huge gapietal structure still

r power is a rayFor this we must

motivated both

or representationbove. The figures

%

tionWomenWinnability

48.89

46.97

43.28

24.42

27.14

19.58

25.15

14.65

11.52

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From 96% men representithat of women has risen frrisen, but their percentageconcern. The pace wirepresentation has not.people is comparativelyhence even poorer represebridge this gap. Moreover,

The proposed reservationsituation as a whole. The elhold their seat on theirthemselves and justify iempowerment physically, s

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g at Lok Sabha in 1957 it have fallen tom 4% in 1957 to 11% in 2014. Not onlyis too rising. But the pace of increash which their contesting spirit hhis implies that acceptance of wome

low. This in turn causes low morale to contation in future. Hence, our society has toomen who get elected should look after th

ay solve this issue in numbers, but it shcted women representing should be alsown. They should have their represent

. Hence these figures are implyingciologically and psychologically too.

ns also held a exclusive place, becaere separately accounted in these elledged as a separate category, but also t

t for representation in Trans-Genders too iants who stood for 2014 elections,

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der representation at

Lower House trends.

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8% in 2014, andtheir number has

is an issue ofas risen, theirn candidates byest elections, andmake an effort tois issue.

ll not change theapable enough totion from withineed for women

se for the firstctions. Not only

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Role of Ind

India! The worlds youngeshappens to be worlds largesbut still considered as the

constitution says WE THE PEinto a SOVERIGN SOCIALISrendered India is unique identhe 5-mantras that empono-one is a ruler, but eveelect their representatives, wto note here is that any Indievery Indian has the right to

India is a multi-party natifreedom in our constitution.

considerable number of peopIndependents.

The points to notice here are:

Ever since 1952 elections tof independents claimitremendously. It was me8251, which is almost near

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ependents in Indian Electio

t democracy and being 2nd most populousdemocracy too. The Indian democracy ismost mature democracy. The preambl

PLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolvedT SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC...ity in the world politics. To put in otherers each and every Indian to be fre

yone is. Every five years we have electio will run the Nation for coming five-year

an citizen can stand for elections. Yes! Atand for elections and dream to have pow

on which has also emerged to an extentill ever since elections in India started t

le not from any party contesting election

e quest for power has increased many-folng their potentials to share powerely 533 out of 1874 in 1952 and in 2014 io half.

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s

ation after China,though youngest,e to the Indian

o constitute IndiaThese 5-featuresords, these are& equal. Here

ns, where peoples. Most importantybody. Each andr in the hand.

because of thisere have been a

. They are called

ds. The numberhas increasedwas 3234 out of


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If the trends are observed more vividly, one can notice the multi-fold rise in 1980,and continued after that till 1996, when it increased with leaps-and-bounds.However, it shrunk highly after 1996. But again increased slightly from 2004and has risen with almost similar pace till 2014.

This makes it clear that whenever there is political instability, number of independents

contesting rise. Does this relate to opportunism in politics?!

Note:1990s was the era of the birth of several small regional parties. Many existingsmall parties also started gaining momentum. Everyone was in a race for power. Thiswas the time when number of independents showed sharp rise from 5546 in 1991-92election to 10635 in 1996 elections.

However, the interesting fact to observe is that their actual share in power has

gone down very badly. When in 1952 out of 533, 37 got elected, in 2014 this figure is

merely 3 that too out of 3234.

The graph above clearly shows that though number of independents in election

battle field has sharply risen, but their winnability has fallen even more.

General Elections Independent Winnability Independent contesting %age

1951-52 6.94 28.44

1957 8.73 31.67

1962 4.18 24.13

1967 4.04 36.56

1971 1.23 40.73

1977 0.74 50.18

1980 0.32 61.05

1984-85 0.13 69.14

1989 0.32 60.26

1991-92 0.09 63.39

1996 0.08 76.23

1998 0.31 40.32

1999 0.31 41.85

2004 0.21 43.88

2009 0.23 47.47

2014 0.09 39.20

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In the multi party system country like India, role of Independents in politics very much

like ends with no-poles. However, in a representative democratic nation like India, their

role cannot be put to question altogether. After all, they are equally responsible for the

people of the constituency who elected them, as the prime minister/leader of opposition

are to the people who elected them. Just because they belong to a majority ruling party

or opposition party and the independent comes from none, doesnt gives a valid reasonto question their interests. However, such representation should be checked when they

nurture opportunism in politics.

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