Jharkhand Assembly Elections 2024 | A look at how women candidates faired in 2019 polls

Jharkhand will vote in two phases for the 2024 assembly elections, with phase 1 set for November 13 and phase 2 set for November 20. Results will be declared on November 23.

Jharkhand, after a rollercoaster of a year, is set to vote for a new government in November.

Voting will be held in two phases, with phase 1 set for November 13 and phase 2 set for November 20. Results will be declared on November 23.

At 12.3 per cent of its total MLAs, Jharkhand ranks third among states with the highest representation for women.

Let's take a look at how the female candidates faired in the 2019 assembly polls:

Number of women candidates

128 women contested in the 2019 Jharkhand assembly elections.

They made up 11% per cent of the candidates that contested.

Success rate

10 women candidates won in Jharkhand in 2019, 2 others won after bypolls.

This means 10.1 per cent of the women candidates prevailed in Jharkhand.

The 24 female MLAs make up 12.3 per cent of the 81 seats in the Jharkhand assembly, a similar ratio to the number of female candidates vs the number of candidates.

Prominent names and how they faired

JMM's Bebi Devi

Baby Devi won the Dumri constituency in bypoll elections in 2023. She then joined Hemant Soren's cabinet as Women, Child Development & Social Security Minister

Congress' Deepika Pandey Singh

Deepika Pandey Singh, the current Minster for Agriculture, Animal Husbandry & Co-operative, and for Disaster Management, won the Mahagam constituency in 2019.

Assembly Elections 2024 | The Maharashtra Assembly polls will take place against the backdrop of a fractured political landscape in the western state where the Shiv Sena and NCP will be going up against the Uddhav Thackeray and Sharad Pawar factions, even as the BJP and Congress try to make their mark. Meanwhile, in Jharkhand, the JMM faces a new challenge after Hemant Soren's recent arrest and Champai, a longstanding party member, joining the BJP. The Haryana election resulted in a shock loss for Congress, which was looking to galvanize on the Lok Sabha poll performance, while J&K also saw the grand old party eventually stepping away from the cabinet, with Omar Abdullah's JKNC forming government. It remains to be seen if the upcoming polls help BJP cement its position further or provide a fillip to I.N.D.I.A. Check live updates and track the latest coverage, live news, in-depth opinions, and analyses only on Deccan Herald.

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