Cabinet Ministers
● Narendra Modi – Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space, All important policy issues and all other portfolios not allocated to any Minister
● Rajnath Singh – Home Affairs
● Sushma Swaraj – External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs
● Arun Jaitley – Finance, Corporate Affairs, additional charge of Defence
● M Venkaiah Naidu – Urban Development, Housing, Urban Poverty Alleviation, Parliamentary Affairs
● Nitin Gadkari – Road Transport and Highways, Shipping
● DV Sadananda Gowda – Railways
● Uma Bharati – Water resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
● Dr Najma Heptulla – Minority Affairs
● Gopinath Munde – Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation
● Ramvilas Paswan – Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
● Kalraj Mishra – Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
● Maneka Gandhi – Women and Child Development
● Ananthkumar – Chemicals and Fertilizers
● Ravi Shankar Prasad – Communications and Information Technology Law and Justice
● Ashok Gajapathi Raju – Civil Aviation
● Anant Geete – Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
● Harsimrat Kaur Badal – Food Processing Industries
● Narendra Singh Tomar – Mines, Steel, Labour and Employment
● Jual Oram – Tribal Affairs
● Radha Mohan Singh – Agriculture
● Thaawar Chand Gehlot – Social Justice and Empowerment
● Smriti Irani – Human Resource Development
● Dr Harsh Vardhan – Health and Family Welfare
Ministers of State (Independent Charge)
● General VK Singh – Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge), External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs
● Inderjit Singh Rao – Planning (Independent Charge), Statistics and Programme Implementation (Independent Charge), Defence
● Santosh Gangwar – Textiles (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs, Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
● Shripad Naik – Culture (Independent Charge), Tourism (Independent Charge)
● Dharmendra Pradhan – Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)
● Sarbananda Sonowal – Skill Development, Entrepreneurship, Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge)
● Prakash Javadekar – Information and Broadcasting (Independent Charge), Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs
● Piyush Goyal – Power (Independent Charge), Coal (Independent Charge), New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge)
● Dr Jitendra Singh – Science and Technology (Independent Charge), Earth Sciences (Independent Charge), Prime Minister Office, Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space
● Nirmala Sitharaman – Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge), Finance, Corporate Affairs
Ministers of State
● GM Siddeshwara – Civil Aviation
● Manoj Sinha – Railways
● Nihalchand – Chemicals and Fertilizers
● Upendra Kushwaha – Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation
● Pon Radhakrishnan – Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
● Kiren Rijiju – Home Affairs
● Krishan Pal – Road Transport and Highways, Shipping
● Dr. Sanjeev Balyan – Agriculture, Food Processing Industries
● Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava – Tribal Affairs
● Raosaheb Danve – Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
● Vishnu Deo Sai – Mines, Steel, Labour and Employment
● Sudarshan Bhagat – Social Justice and Empowerment
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
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Sunday, May 25, 2014
General Elections 2014: Lowest ever Number of Independent Candidates Elected
General Elections 2014 has seen the lowest ever number of Independent candidates getting elected. Out of a total of 8251 contestants, 3234 were Independent candidates; out of this, 3 candidates have been elected. In the previous General Elections held in 2009, the total number of Independent candidates was 3831 out of which 9 were elected. The highest ever number of Independents elected is 42 (Second General Elections, 1957); the number of Independent candidates contested was highest at 10635 in 11th General Elections, held in 1996.
Table 1: Performance of Independent Candidates in General Elections 1951-52 ̶ 2014
General Elections
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Year
|
Total No. of Contestants
|
Total No. of Independent Candidates
|
No. of Independent Candidates Elected
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First
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1951 - '52
|
1874
|
533
|
37
|
Second
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1957
|
1519
|
481
|
42
|
Third
|
1962
|
1985
|
479
|
20
|
Fourth
|
1967
|
2369
|
866
|
35
|
Fifth
|
1971
|
2784
|
1134
|
14
|
Sixth
|
1977
|
2439
|
1224
|
9
|
Seventh
|
1980
|
4629
|
2826
|
9
|
Eighth
|
1984 -'85
|
5492
|
3797
|
5
|
Ninth
|
1989
|
6160
|
3712
|
12
|
Tenth
|
1991 -'92
|
8749
|
5546
|
5
|
Eleventh
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1996
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13952
|
10635
|
9
|
Twelfth
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1998
|
4750
|
1915
|
6
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Thirteenth
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1999
|
4648
|
1945
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6
|
Fourteenth
|
2004
|
5435
|
2385
|
5
|
Fifteenth
|
2009
|
8070
|
3831
|
9
|
Sixteenth
|
2014
|
8251
|
3234
|
3
|
Source: Election Commission of India
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Number of Contestants and Winners - Gender-Wise Highest number of Women in Lok Sabha so far
The 16th 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 16th 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
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Year
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Total Number of Seats
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Total Number of Contestants
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Average Number of Contestants Per Seat
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Male
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Female
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Contestants
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Elected
|
Winning %
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Contestants
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Elected
|
Winning %
| |||||
First
|
1952
|
489
|
1,874
|
4.67
|
--
|
--
|
--
|
--
|
--
|
--
|
Second
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1957
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494
|
1,519
|
3.77
|
1474
|
472
|
32.02
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45
|
22
|
48.89
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Third
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1962
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494
|
1,985
|
4.02
|
1919
|
463
|
24.13
|
66
|
31
|
46.97
|
Fourth
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1967
|
520
|
2,369
|
4.56
|
2302
|
491
|
21.33
|
67
|
29
|
43.28
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Fifth
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1971
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518
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2,784
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5.37
|
2698
|
497
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18.42
|
86
|
21
|
24.42
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Sixth
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1977
|
542
|
2,439
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4.5
|
2369
|
523
|
22.08
|
70
|
19
|
27.14
|
Seventh
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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
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1989
|
543
|
6,160
|
11.34
|
5962
|
514
|
8.62
|
198
|
29
|
14.65
|
Tenth
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1991-92
|
543
|
8,749
|
16.11
|
8419
|
496
|
5.89
|
330
|
38
|
11.52
|
Eleventh
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1996
|
543
|
13,952
|
25.69
|
13353
|
503
|
3.77
|
599
|
40
|
6.68
|
Twelfth
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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
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2004
|
543
|
5,435
|
10.01
|
5080
|
498
|
9.8
|
355
|
45
|
12.68
|
Fifteenth
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2009
|
543
|
8,070
|
14.86
|
7514
|
484
|
6.44
|
556
|
59
|
10.61
|
Sixteenth
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2014
|
543
|
8,251*
|
15.2
|
7,578
|
482
|
6.36
|
668
|
61
|
9.13
|
*5 transgenders contested the 2014 elections
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