Women in Indian state assemblies - Interactive prototype

I made this visual as part of presenting a story on women representation in Indian parliament (see our initiative Gender in Politics) Women reservation bill has been neglected in Indian politics for many years. Our goal is to bring it back to focus using data. One of the objectives of the bill is to reserve 1/3rd of the contesting parliament seats to women as affirmative action.

Explore state-wise women MLA trends for all the assembly election years (1955-2014)

  • * Chart depicts the % change in women MLAs in consecutive state assembly elections.
  • * Lack of bars suggests that there is no change in number of MLAs.
  • * Every Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) is elected by people in respective constituency.
  • * Election data for all the states for 1971 is not segregated by gender by ECI (Election Commission of India). Hence, missing from the analysis here.

Created using d3 js, jQuery, Bootstrap. Data from Election Commission of India.