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NE more women than men; yet few female candidates
Nagaland Post | IANS | Agartala, Apr 26
There are more women than men in the northeast, but just a handful of them were in the poll fray. In fact, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland had no women candidates. Women outnumbered men in Manipur (women 902,919, men 871,411), Meghalaya (women 789,189, men 776,633), Mizoram (women 355,960, men 346,229) and Arunachal Pradesh (women 379,474, men 378,019).
Yet, only 9.36 percent of the total of 235 candidates were women contesting the Lok Sabha elections in seven northeastern states - Assam (14 seats), Arunachal Pradesh (2), Meghalaya (2), Manipur (2), Tripura (2), Nagaland (one) and Mizoram (one).
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