Voters’ Education and Electoral Participation:

Barabanki (U.P.) SC 53

Focus : Women Empowerment

Representing the District Team Ministhy S. D E O Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh,

2014, Lok Sabha Elections

The Elections and the Women: A historical

perspective• Women and Elections: International Women Suffrage

• In Pre 1950 India

• The right of women to vote and stand as Candidate : 1947

• In Post 1950 India, The article 14 of the Constitution of India empowered all by proclaiming equality for all

The First Few General Elections in India

• The data is not available with respect to male-female Voters for first general elections. Not even for next 3 more of 1957, 1962, 1967 !

• Only from 1971 elections male female vote % is available

Barabanki

Status of Women• Suffering from some of the worst development

indicators of female empowerment • Maternal mortality rate• Infant mortality rate • Toilet facilities for women

Basic Analysis of Women Participation in Elections• 2009 Parliamentary Election :

• 52.3% Total voter turnout • 44.7 % Women voter turnout

The worst voter turnout Ass. Constituency in P E 2009 : Haidergarh

- 46.37% Total voter turnout, - 39.96 % Women voter turnout

The best voter turnout Ass. Constituency in P E 2009 : Kursi

- 56.39% Total voter turnout, - 49.32 % Women voter turnout

• 2012 Assembly Elections : Gender Ratio 843 Women voters enrolled for every 1000 Male voters (Extremely low against

desirable statics of 908)

The 2009 Parliamentary elections

Poll % of Lok Sabha’ General Election – 2009, 53 Barabanki (S.C.)S.no

AC No. & Name Electors as per 2009 roll The number of voters who participated in voting

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2012 Ass. ElectionVoter Gender Ratio of District

A C Name Gender Ratio (No. of Female Voter /1000 Male Voters)

Ram Nager 807Rudauli (Partial) 817Barabanki 841Dariabad 841Kursi 844Jaitpur 857Haidergard 868District Average 843 (Desirable 908)

District Team’s Strategy for 2014 Par. Elections• Pull up Gender Ratio – Enroll maximum women voters

• Analyze within each AC the 10 PBs with worst women enrollment

• Go with full force to enroll women as voters after understanding reasons

• Pull up female voter turnout : Encourage women to vote• Analyze within each AC the 10 PBs with worst women voter

turnout• Go with full force to encourage women to vote after

understanding reasons

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Analysis of Haidergarh in 2009 (46.37%) Lowest in Voter turnout

General Strategies at District Level

• 1. Identification of mazras and hamlets falling in lower EP and Gender Ratio booths

• 2. Identifying the reasons of low registration• 3. Involving elders and youngsters to motivate the

unregistered electors to be part of the proud voter group• 4. Involving motivated students and organizations

like NCC and NSS volunteers• 5. Involving political functionaries and BLAs of

political parties to speak to the potential voters• 6. Launching media campaigns to educate and

motivate

• 7. Using ICE material provided by ECI and CEO U P Office from time to time

• 8. Involving all government functionaries at village level particularly the female workers like Asha Bahu, Anganvadi workers and female teachers and locally habited shiksha-mitras

• 9. Involving local artistes like folk singers of Awadhi and Bhojpuri

• 10. Touring of women NYK volunteers in the worst GR and worst female voter turnout polling booths

General Strategies at District Level

Results achieved (2014)

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Results achieved (2014)

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Analysis of Haidergarh in 2014 (58.26%) Voter turnout

Contd.

Result Achieved 2014 Par. ElectionVoter Gender Ratio of District

A C Name Gender Ratio (No. of Female Voter /1000 Male Voters)

2012

Gender Ratio (No. of Female Voter /1000 Male Voters)

2014

Ram Nager 807 825

Rudauli (Partial) 817 823

Barabanki 841 852

Dariabad 841 854

Kursi 844 861

Jaitpur 857 868

Haidergard 868 872

District Average 843 (Desirable 908) 855

District team awarded on Voters Day 2014 for the result

A Few Glimpses of our Journey ..

Thank you

from Team Barabanki