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Highlights of Candidates in General Elections 2019
Total Contestants 8054
Male Contestants 7322
Female Contestants 726
Third Gender Contestants 06
Maximum number of Candidates in a 185 in Nizamabad, Telangana
Parliamentary Constituency
Minimum number of Candidates in a Parliamentary 03 in Tura, Meghalaya
Constituency
Maximum votes polled to a candidate 547754, Shri Shankar Lalwani, Bharatiya Janata Party, Indore
Minimum votes polled to a candidate 84, Shri Surakanta Raja Reddy, Independent Nizamabad
Total Candidates fielded by National 1454
Political Parties
Total Candidates fielded by State 347
Political Parties
Total Candidates fielded by unrecognised 3,062
Political Parties
Independent Candidates 3,461
Winners from National Political Parties 397
Winners from State Political Parties 136
Winners from unrecognised Political Parties 06
Winners from amongst Independent Candidates 04
Maximum Women Contesting Candidates in a 106 in Uttar Pradesh
State
Minimum Women Contesting Candidates in a State 1 each in Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh,
Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram
and Sikkim
Maximum Women Winning Candidates in a 11 each in Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal
States
Total Elected women MPs 78
Age of Oldest Elected MP 86 (Sh. Shafiqur Rahman Barq, Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh)
Age of Youngest elected MP 25 (Ms. Chandrani Murmu, Keonjhar, Odisha)
Average age of Elected MPs 54.38 years
Maximum winning Margin of a Candidate 689668 (52.73 % CR Patil from Navsari)
Number of Candidates forfeited deposits 6923

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