Number of Contestants and Winners - Gender-Wise Highest number of Women in Lok Sabha so far

The 16^th Lok Sabha has the highest number of women members ever at 61, compared to 59 Women members in 2009.The least number of women members was in 1977 followed by 1971 and 1957.  In the 2014 Elections, 8251 candidates contested the elections, out of which 668 were women and 7,578 were men. 5 Transgenders also contested the polls this Elections. The winning percentage of women in the 16^th General Elections is 9.13% while that of Men’s is 6.36%.The Average number of contestants per seat is 15.2 in 2014.

Contestants and Winners - Gender-wise

General Elections	Year	Total Number of Seats	Total Number of Contestants	Average Number of Contestants Per Seat	Male			Female
					Contestants	Elected	Winning %	Contestants	Elected	Winning %
First	1952	489	1,874	4.67	--	--	--	--	--	--
Second	1957	494	1,519	3.77	1474	472	32.02	45	22	48.89
Third	1962	494	1,985	4.02	1919	463	24.13	66	31	46.97
Fourth	1967	520	2,369	4.56	2302	491	21.33	67	29	43.28
Fifth	1971	518	2,784	5.37	2698	497	18.42	86	21	24.42
Sixth	1977	542	2,439	4.5	2369	523	22.08	70	19	27.14
Seventh	1980	542	4,629	8.54	4486	514	11.46	143	28	19.58
Eighth	1984-85	542	5,492	10.13	5321	500	9.4	171	43	25.15
Ninth	1989	543	6,160	11.34	5962	514	8.62	198	29	14.65
Tenth	1991-92	543	8,749	16.11	8419	496	5.89	330	38	11.52
Eleventh	1996	543	13,952	25.69	13353	503	3.77	599	40	6.68
Twelfth	1998	543	4,750	8.75	4476	500	11.17	274	43	15.69
Thirteenth	1999	543	4,648	8.56	4364	494	11.32	284	49	17.25
Fourteenth	2004	543	5,435	10.01	5080	498	9.8	355	45	12.68
Fifteenth	2009	543	8,070	14.86	7514	484	6.44	556	59	10.61
Sixteenth	2014	543	8,251*	15.2	7,578	482	6.36	668	61	9.13

*5 transgenders contested the 2014 elections