The percentage of women contesting the Delhi Assembly polls will be the highest in the 2020 Assembly polls, at over 11 per cent.
This is the first time that this percentage has reached the double digits.
Out of the total 672 candidates in the fray in these Assembly polls, 79 are women - - over 11 per cent of the total contestants.
In 2015, 66 of the 673 contestants, or over 9 per cent, were women, but only six of them were elected to the house.
In 2013, when three MLAs were women, the number of women in the fray was 71 out of the total of 810 contestants.
The number of women in the fray was highest in 2008 at 81 out of 875, a little below 10 per cent.
Only three were elected.
Seven women MLAS were elected to Delhi's third Assembly in 2003.
Women comprised 78 out of the total 817 candidates in the fray, or over nine per cent.
During the 1998 assembly elections, when the Congress wrested power and Sheila Dikshit became the Chief Minister for the first time, there were 57 females in the fray.
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