Aizawl: The results of assembly elections in Mizoram came on Monday. Now ZPM will rule the state by removing the MNF government. Lalduhoma's party has also created history by achieving a big victory. For the first time in Mizoram, three women candidates were elected to the 40-member assembly. This time 16 women had stood in the Mizoram Assembly elections. Out of these 16 women, only three have won. Zoram People's Movement (ZMP) candidate Lalrinpui won from the Lunglei East constituency and her party colleague and television anchor Beryl Wanneihsangi Aizawi was elected from the South-3 seat.
As the Christian-dominated (87 per cent) Mizo society traditionally follows a patriarchal culture, Mizoram's main political parties have rarely nominated women candidates in the Lok Sabha and assembly elections.
As the Christian-dominated (87 per cent) Mizo society traditionally follows a patriarchal culture, Mizoram's main political parties have rarely nominated women candidates in the Lok Sabha and assembly elections.
who won from where
Pravo Chakma of Mizo National Front (MNF) won the West Tuipui seat. Lalrinpui and Pravo defeated their male Congress candidates, while Baril Vanneihsangi defeated her MNF opponent.
Women never got victory
174 candidates, including 16 women, contested the November 7 assembly elections, while a total of 209 candidates, including 18 women, contested the last assembly elections in 2018. 136 candidates, including six women candidates, contested the 2013 assembly elections.
No woman candidate won in the 2013 or 2018 elections. The first woman elected as MLA in Mizoram (Mizoram was given the status of a Union Territory with a 30-member legislature in 1972) was L. of the People's Conference (PC). Was Thanmavi.
