8% of women candidates to contest Lok Sabha phase 1 polls on April 19

21 states and Union Territories (UTs) which will go to polls on April 19 include Andaman and Nicobar Islands with 12 (including 2 women) candidates, Arunachal Pradesh with 14 (including 1 woman), Assam with 35 candidates (including 4 women), Bihar with 38 candidates (including 3 women).

Madhya Pradesh with 88 candidates (7 women), Maharashtra with 97 candidates (7 women), Meghalaya with 10 candidates each (2 women), Mizoram with 6 candidates (only 1 women), Puducherry with 26 candidates(3 women), Rajasthan with 114 candidates (12 women), Sikkim with 14 candidates (only 1 women), Uttar Pradesh with 80 candidates (7 women), Uttarakhand with 55 candidates (4 women) and West Bengal with 37 candidates (4 women).

Six states namely Chhattisgarh, J&K, Lakshadweep, Manipur, Nagaland, and Tripura have 11, 12, 4, 10, 3, and 9 candidates contesting in the elections respectively with zero women candidates.