Out of 556 women in all, 134 contested from the National parties while 27 were given tickets from State Parties. Others included 188 from Registered Parties (Unrecognized) and 207 independents.

In General Elections 2009, BJP fielded 44 women contestants while Congress fielded 43 women. Out of these, 23 women contestants from Congress and 13 women contestants from BJP won the Elections.

Amongst other national Parties, Bahujan Samaj Party gave tickets to 28 women in all out of which only four candidates won. CPM and CPI gave six and four tickets respectively to women with one women winning from CPM while none women contestant could reach Lok Sabha from CPI. NCP gave tickets to seven female candidates, with two of them winning seats.

State-wise, the most number of women candidates was from UP where 100 women contested with 13 of them winning. In Maharashtra 55 women contested but only three won. In Bihar, 46 women contested and four of them reached to Lok Sabha.