Kerala’s electoral gender ratio second highest in India
2 weeks, 2 days ago

Kerala’s electoral gender ratio second highest in India

New Indian Express  

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala is now the state with the second-highest electoral gender ratio in India. At 1,43,36,133, women constitute 51.56% of Kerala’s electorate, showed the data set brought out by the Election Commission of India recently. The state’s ‘elector density’ was also second highest in India - the average number of electors per polling station in Kerala in the 2024 election was 1,102. Of the total 13 transgender NRI electors in India, nine are from Kerala, two from Andhra Pradesh and one each from Telangana and Karnataka. However, only 2,670 of Kerala’s NRI electors, which includes 271 women, voted in the 2024 LS election.

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TN Women Voters Outnumber Men in 207 Assembly Seats
2 months, 2 weeks ago

TN Women Voters Outnumber Men in 207 Assembly Seats

New Indian Express  

Women voters in Tamil Nadu are steadily outnumbering men in all Lok Sabha and Assembly constituencies, with women having a significant lead in many areas. According to the draft electoral rolls, women have outnumbered men in 207 Assembly constituencies and in the rest, they will be on the top in a few years.

Tamil Nadu has 6.27 crore voters, 8L more than January count
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Tamil Nadu has 6.27 crore voters, 8L more than January count

New Indian Express  

CHENNAI: The voter population of Tamil Nadu went up by over eight lakh as of Tuesday when compared to the integrated final electoral roll released in January this year. The voter population which stood at 6.18 crore in January has increased to 6.27 crore as per the draft electoral rolls for the special summary revision of electoral rolls released on …

Kerala Lok Sabha Election Results 2024: Full list of all constituency-wise leading candidates and parties
7 months, 1 week ago

Kerala Lok Sabha Election Results 2024: Full list of all constituency-wise leading candidates and parties

India TV News  

Kerala Lok Sabha Election Results 2024: The couting of votes for all 20 Lok Sabha seats in Kerala is taking place today along with 543 seats in the country as results of the 18th Lok Sabha will be declared today. Kerala Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 | List of leading candidates and Party S.No. Constituency State Leading Candidate Leading Party …

Kerala Election Results 2024 Live: Rahul Gandhi wins Wayanad seat, list inside
7 months, 1 week ago

Kerala Election Results 2024 Live: Rahul Gandhi wins Wayanad seat, list inside

Hindustan Times  

Kerala has 20 Lok Sabha constituencies that went in for the fierce political battle, with a voter turnout of 67.08% recorded in a single-phase election in the state on April 26, 2024. Kerala Election Results 2024 Live: The intense political battle between the state-ruling Left Democratic Front, Congress-led United Democratic Front and Bharatiya Janata Party comes down to this day …

Electoral fortunes of contestants in East Godavari depend on women voters
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Electoral fortunes of contestants in East Godavari depend on women voters

New Indian Express  

RAJAMAHENDRAVARAM: The overwhelming voter turnout in the just concluded Lok Sabha and Assembly elections has boosted the victory hopes of contestants of both the ruling YSRC and the tripartite alliance in the erstwhile undivided East Godavari district. According to ECI data, the turnout of women voters is more than men in all seven Assembly segments of Rajamahedravaram Lok Sabha constituency. …

Kerala LS polls: Thiruvananthapuram, Attingal voter turnout figures revised
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Kerala LS polls: Thiruvananthapuram, Attingal voter turnout figures revised

New Indian Express  

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Election Commission has revised the voter turnout in Thiruvananthapuram and Attingal parliamentary constituencies in the district to 66.47% and 69.48%, respectively. Of the 14.30 lakh voters in Thiruvananthapuram constituency, 9.50 lakh, including 4.67 lakh men, 4.83 lakh women and 29 people from the third gender, cast their votes. Of the 13.96 lakh voters in Attingal, 9.70 lakh -- …

Only 8 per cent of women candidates in first two phases of Lok Sabha polls
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Only 8 per cent of women candidates in first two phases of Lok Sabha polls

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: Women constituted only eight per cent of the total 2,823 candidates in the first two phases of the Lok Sabha polls, with political activists saying it reflects a deeper issue of gender bias and that the talk of empowering them rings hollow. In the first phase of the Lok Sabha polls, there were 135 women candidates while in …

Voter turnout in Tamil Nadu marginally better among women than men in Lok Sabha poll
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Voter turnout in Tamil Nadu marginally better among women than men in Lok Sabha poll

The Hindu  

In Tamil Nadu, women voters surpassed men voters by a thin margin of 0.27 percentage points in exercising their franchise in the 2024 Lok Sabha election, the polling for which was held on Friday, according to the revised turnout data released by the Election Commission of India on Sunday. The difference was three to five percentage points between women and …

Plan ahead to improve women’s representation
8 months, 4 weeks ago

Plan ahead to improve women’s representation

New Indian Express  

There are few surprises in candidate selection for this Lok Sabha election. Most of the women in the fray today are daughters, wives, sisters or daughters-in-law of party leaders, anointed to continue the family business, tutored and dictated to by male family members. This election’s series of unsavoury remarks—from women deemed fit only for the kitchen, and certain candidates needing …

Afternoon briefing: 8% women candidates set for LS phase 1 poll; Cong slams BJP's 'Muslim League' remarks, and more
9 months ago

Afternoon briefing: 8% women candidates set for LS phase 1 poll; Cong slams BJP's 'Muslim League' remarks, and more

Hindustan Times  

In the first phase of Lok Sabha elections on April 19, eight per cent of the candidates will be women. Dig deeper 102 seats will go to polls in the first phase which will see 1,625 candidates in fray. Dig deeper Latest News Sensex reached 75,000 from 74,000 in 24 sessions: A look at its journey till date Dig deeper …

Lok Sabha election | Parties need to walk the women talk
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Lok Sabha election | Parties need to walk the women talk

The Hindu  

When the Women’s Reservation Bill was passed in the Lok Sabha on September 21, 2023 it was dubbed as a milestone in the history of the women’s rights movement in the country. Hitherto, the number of seats any coalition has offered to women in the previous Lok Sabha polls over the past 20 years is a maximum of three. Of …

Kerala enrols nearly three lakh young voters in five months
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Kerala enrols nearly three lakh young voters in five months

New Indian Express  

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In the run up to the Lok Sabha election, close to 3 lakh youths in the age group of 18-19 years have been enrolled in the state’s electoral roll during the past five months. The number of young voters that stood at 77,176 when the draft voters list was brought out on October 27 last year, rose to 2.88 …

Lok Sabha elections: How women voters emerged as a decisive factor in polls | EXPLAINED
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Lok Sabha elections: How women voters emerged as a decisive factor in polls | EXPLAINED

India TV News  

Lok Sabha elections 2024: It is often said that Indian politics is highly patriarchal, but over the last few decades women voters have changed the scenario by playing a decisive role in forming the government. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said the AAP government's Mukhyamantri Mahila Samman Yojana to give Rs 1,000 to all women above 18 years of age …

Andhra Pradesh has 4.08 crore electors
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Andhra Pradesh has 4.08 crore electors

Deccan Chronicle  

The Election Commission of India released the SSR-2024. The total number of voters as per the draft roll prepared under the Special Summary Revision-2024 is 4,02,21,450 - as against the 3,99,84,868 voters as per final roll under SSR-2023. The number of new electors added after the draft roll 2024 to the final roll under SSR 2024 is 22,38,952. The number …

T.N. electorate rises by 7 lakh voters, now stands at 6.18 crore
11 months, 3 weeks ago

T.N. electorate rises by 7 lakh voters, now stands at 6.18 crore

The Hindu  

January 22, 2024 01:51 pm | Updated January 23, 2024 08:02 am IST - CHENNAI The electorate of Tamil Nadu rose by about seven lakh electors and now stands at 6.18 crore, including 3.14 crore women, 3.03 crore men and over 8,200 from the third gender, according to the integrated final electoral rolls published by the Election Commission of India …

India’s women voters will surpass male voters in 2029 Lok Sabha polls: Report
1 year, 1 month ago

India’s women voters will surpass male voters in 2029 Lok Sabha polls: Report

Live Mint  

A major shift in India's electoral landscape is anticipated by the end of this decade. A report by the SBI has claimed that women voters in India will surpass male voters from 2029 onwards. In the upcoming general election in 2024, the SBI report has projected a total voter turnout of around 68 crore, of which women voters could be …

Rural Women Show The Way to Their Urban Counterparts
1 year, 1 month ago

Rural Women Show The Way to Their Urban Counterparts

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Women in Telangana, especially in the rural areas, apparently take their responsibility of voting more seriously than men, if the numbers from the just-concluded Telangana state Assembly elections are any indication. In all, there are 1,62,98,482 male voters and 1,63,01,634 female voters in the state, of whom 1,15,84,728 men and 1,16,73,722 women voted. The six constituencies that elected women …

Delimitation debate: gender vs regional, caste identities
1 year, 3 months ago

Delimitation debate: gender vs regional, caste identities

The Hindu  

An accelerating shift of political power from the southern States to the region above the Vindhyas was to be the central debate around the delimitation of Lok Sabha constituencies which is to follow the first census after 2026, but the proposed reservation of one-third of the seats in Parliament and Assemblies for women has added another power shift to the …

Enrolment of Women in Electoral Rolls in Line with Census Gender Ratio: Govt to LS
2 years, 9 months ago

Enrolment of Women in Electoral Rolls in Line with Census Gender Ratio: Govt to LS

News 18  

Enrolment of women in the electoral rolls was in line with the census gender ratio with female voters constituting over 48 per cent of the total Indian electorate, Lok Sabha was informed on Friday. Responding to a question on lesser enrolment of women in electoral rolls, Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju said as per the Election Commission, the total number …

5.7 lakh more women voted than men in 2021 election
3 years, 9 months ago

5.7 lakh more women voted than men in 2021 election

The Hindu  

A total of 5,68,580 more women voted than men in 2021, the widest increase in the history of the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, according to the figures released by the Chief Electoral Officer on Friday. The number of women who voted began to overtake men for the first time in Tamil Nadu in the 2016 election. This is a reversal …

Not all seats in Kerala go with the flow -- some do buck anti-incumbency trends
3 years, 9 months ago

Not all seats in Kerala go with the flow -- some do buck anti-incumbency trends

India Today  

Kerala has a long tradition of the incumbent getting voted out every five years. Constituencies that allow parties to represent them for multiple terms Kasaragod, Udma, Kanhangad, Irikkur, Payyannur, Taliparamba, Alathur, Beypore, Changanassery, Chelakkara, Ernakulam, Ranni, Kondotty, Konni, and Perambra are among the constituencies that have been consistent with their choice of the political party or coalition. While Udma, Payannur, …

Opinion | Women electors are giving shape to Indian politics
4 years, 10 months ago

Opinion | Women electors are giving shape to Indian politics

Live Mint  

Believe it or not, a silent revolution is taking shape in India. Whatever impact Kejriwal’s claims and promises might have had on them, the fact remains that the women and youth of the capital city voted largely in favour of him. Not only this, but also the way a heated debate started on the issue of Shaheen Bagh made women …

Kerala: Power to panchayats
4 years, 11 months ago

Kerala: Power to panchayats

The Hindu  

Kerala was the best performer in devolving power and resources to panchayats, Uttar Pradesh cornered the lion’s share of all grants to panchayati raj institutions over the past five years, and the gap between allocation and release of finance commission grants to PRIs has been steadily widening, according to a document of basic statistics on PRIs released by the Ministry …

Kerala records highest voting turnout in 30 years, all parties hopeful for victory
5 years, 8 months ago

Kerala records highest voting turnout in 30 years, all parties hopeful for victory

Op India  

After the conclusion of voting in all 20 Lok Sabha constituencies in Kerala on the third phase on 23rd April, the state has recorded its highest ever voter turnout in 30 years. The BJP, on the other hand, is hopeful that the high turnout would let them make inroads into the State’s politics. Kannur had the highest voter turnout of …

Women's representation in Lok Sabha polls: On election-eve, Tamil Nadu's abysmal numbers leave much to be desired
5 years, 8 months ago

Women's representation in Lok Sabha polls: On election-eve, Tamil Nadu's abysmal numbers leave much to be desired

Firstpost  

The only Indian state with a female Gross Enrolment Ratio at college level of around 41 percent, which is nearly double that of its closest contender, has under eight women running for the 17th Lok Sabha The only Indian state with a female Gross Enrolment Ratio at college level of around 41 percent, which is nearly double that of its …

Rural women outnumbered urban in voting
5 years, 9 months ago

Rural women outnumbered urban in voting

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Backward districts of Telangana have recorded highest women participation in the recently-concluded Lok Sabha polls. Surprisingly, the Khammam parliamentary constituency recorded a 74.70 per cent women participation which was highest in the state despite having higher number of tribals and scheduled caste voters. In terms of women participation in the Lok Sabha elections, Khammam LS constituency is followed by …

Women voters, women politicians and gender concerns
5 years, 9 months ago

Women voters, women politicians and gender concerns

Hindustan Times  

As it turns out, the Lok Sabha battle for Mumbai’s six seats has three women in the fray – Priya Dutt and Urmila Matondkar of the Congress, Poonam Mahajan of the Bharatiya Janata Party – to count the major parties. They include 33% reservation is Lok Sabha and state Assemblies, comprehensive review and expansion of sexual harassment law, 33% reservation …

Women key to increasing voter turnout; low participation in Madhya Pradesh is most worrying
6 years, 4 months ago

Women key to increasing voter turnout; low participation in Madhya Pradesh is most worrying

Firstpost  

Although female voter turnout has been increasing across India – from 51 percent in 1980 to 66 percent in 2014 – it remains low when compared with the adult population sex ratio in most states. By Rithika Kumar Mumbai: Although female voter turnout has been increasing across India – from 51 percent in 1980 to 66 percent in 2014 – …

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