At 5, Delhi Sees Fewest Girls MLAs In A Decade
New Delhi:
Practically 100 ladies candidates fought the Delhi Meeting polls this yr, however solely 5 – 4 from the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) and one from the Aam Aadmi Occasion (AAP) – might emerge as winners, the bottom within the final 10 years.
Outgoing Chief Minister Atishi, the one girl candidate of the AAP who received this time, was amongst these 5 newly-elected ladies MLAs, who now represent seven per cent of the 70-member meeting.
Of the 699 candidates this yr, 96 have been ladies, together with 9 every from the BJP and the AAP, and 7 from the Congress. The three key political events fielded extra ladies candidates this time than within the 2020 Meeting polls.
This yr, it was additionally the primary time for the reason that Delhi legislative meeting was reconstituted in 1993 {that a} increased turnout of girls voters — 60.9% in opposition to 60.2% of males exercising their franchise – was registered. About 44.08 lakh of 72.36 lakh registered ladies voters acquired their fingers inked within the single-phase election on February 5.
Girls Who Gained 2025 Delhi Polls
Atishi: She retained her Kalkaji seat and received the election by a margin of three,521 votes, defeating BJP’s Ramesh Bidhuri. Atishi is amongst a number of AAP ministers and senior leaders who received the elections as a lot of the get together’s huge weapons, together with Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, Saurabh Bharadwaj, and Satyendar Jain, misplaced.
Neelam Pahelwan: The BJP nominee from Najafgarh defeated her nearest rival, AAP’s Tarun Kumar, by almost 30,000 votes.
Rekha Gupta: Fielded by the BJP from the Shalimar Bagh seat, she defeated AAP’s Bandana Kumari by 29,595 votes.
Poonam Sharma: The BJP candidate received the Wazirpur constituency, defeating Rajesh Gupta of the AAP by 11,425 votes.
Shikha Roy: The BJP chief emerged victorious by defeating incumbent well being minister Saurabh Bharadwaj by a margin of three,188 votes from Larger Kailash.
A Look At Delhi Girls MLAs Over The Years
Solely 44 ladies candidates have received the Delhi meeting elections since 1993 with the very best quantity recorded in 1998, when 9 ladies received.
In 1993, simply three ladies have been elected, making up solely 4.3 per cent of the meeting.
In 2003, seven ladies have been elected, and the quantity dropped to a few in each 2008 and 2013 elections.
In 2015, a complete of 63 ladies contested the polls and 6 of them received.
Within the 2020 elections, 76 ladies have been among the many 672 nominees who fought the polls, of which, eight ladies had received.
Delhi has up to now seen solely three ladies chief ministers – the BJP’s Sushma Swaraj in 1998, the Congress’ Sheila Dikshit, the longest-serving chief minister of the capital who held the workplace for 15 years from 1998 to 2013, and the AAP’s Atishi, town’s youngest chief minister who took the highest publish after Arvind Kejriwal resigned.
