Gujarat Assembly has fewer women MLAs in 2017 than in 2012, says study

Among all the states, Haryana has the highest proportion of women MLAs as they comprise 14.4 per cent (13) of the 90 member Assembly

The proportion of women  MLAs (Members of Legislative Assembly) in Gujarat following the December election has fallen to seven per cent (13 MLAs), two percentage points lesser than nine per cent (16 MLAs) in the 2012 Assembly. Following the 2007 election, the Gujarat Assembly had 13 women MLAs, according to the Election Commission.

As many as 1,693 (93 per cent) of the 1,815 candidates were men, and only 122 ( seven per cent) were women in the 2017 election, as against 1,569 men (94 per cent) and 97 women (six per cent) in the 2012 Assembly poll. In the past five