How Women Contestants Fared In 2023 Elections Amid Low Representation

As assembly election results have poured in from the five contesting states, women leaders have emerged successful in most of their constituencies. While women-centric schemes were part of all the parties' agendas this year, female candidates representing the parties were very few, less than 12%. However, the results this year reflect how the proportion of women contestants who won have had a higher vote share than many male candidates.