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A total of 1056 candidates declared liabilities of Rs 5 lakhs and above.
Among major parties, the average asset per candidate for INC was Rs. 4.87 crores and for BJP was Rs 2.44 crores.
A total of 62% of candidates (4863 of 7810) had not furnished their PAN card details.
Number of women candidates was just 556 (7%) as compared to 7514 of men (93%) candidates.
More than 43% candidates (3383 of 7810) were graduates & above.
None of the parties managed to get votes anywhere near 50%. The highest votes cast were approx 29% for INC
which was about 17% of the total registered voters. It was followed by BJP with 19% of the votes cast which was
about 11% of the total registered voters.
Summary for MPs
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with the most serious criminal cases against them, only 76 won. The remaining 532 were
rejected by the voters.
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Out of 543 new MPs, 162 (30%) have pending criminal cases against them. Comparing this to Lok Sabha 2004,
affidavits were available for 536 MPs out of which 128 (24%) had pending criminal cases against them.
Out of these 162 MPs with pending criminal cases, there are pending serious criminal cases against 76 MPs (14%).
Contrasting this with Lok Sabha 2004, there were 128 MPs with pending criminal cases out of which 58 MPs (11 %)
had serious pending criminal cases.
Out of 162 MPs with pending criminal cases in Lok Sabha 2009, 44 each are of BJP and INC. There are 9 MPs of SP, 6
of BSP, 8 of JD (U), 4 each of AITC, DMK, BJD, NCP and ADMK with pending criminal cases.
As the number of MPs with pending criminal cases has increased from 128 in Lok Sabha 2004 to 162 in Lok Sabha
2009, so has the number of total criminal cases pending against MPs from 430 in Lok Sabha 2004 to 522 in Lok
Sabha 2009.
The number of total serious IPC sections against MPs has decreased from 296 in Lok Sabha 2004 to 274 in Lok Sabha
2009.
The number of crorepati MPs has increased from 156 in Lok Sabha 2004 to 315 in Lok Sabha 2009.
Out of 315 crorepati MPs in Lok Sabha 2009, 146 are of INC, 59 are of BJP, 14 are of SP, 13 each are of BSP and DMK,
9 of SHS, 8 of JD (U) and 7 of AITC.
Among major parties, the average asset per MP for INC is Rs. 5.9 crores and for BJP is Rs 3.4 crores.
Average asset for a MP in the country is Rs 4.5 crores. For calculating this average, assets of three MPs having assets
more than hundred crores have been excluded.
Out of 543 MPs, 84 have not declared their PAN details.
Out of 556 women candidates, only 59 managed to win. Hence only 11% of MPs in current Lok Sabha are women.
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