Following the June 4 announcement of the Lok Sabha election results for 2024, a large number of candidates lost their security deputies. This is in accordance with Election Commission norms, which provide that candidates who did not receive at least one-sixth of the total votes cast must forfeit their security deposits, which are subsequently sent to the Treasury.
Three transgender candidates, eight BRS candidates, and over 91% of candidates running in the Delhi elections lost their deposists.
The security deposit is Rs 25,000 for candidates in the general category and Rs 12,500 for candidates from SC and ST categories.
The Election Commission reported that following the BJP’s resounding victory in the national capital, 91 percent of the contestants running for Delhi’s seven seats—148 out of 162 candidates—lost their security deposits in the Lok Sabha elections.
The Congress and the ruling AAP in Delhi were running together on a four-three ballot. But in all seven Delhi seats, the saffron party won handily.
Every other candidate in the seven seats, aside from the BJP and the AAP-Congress coalition, who came in first and second, respectively, failed to save their security deposit.
This illustrates the obstacles the nation’s transgender community faces in obtaining political representation.
There isn’t currently a transgender member of the Lok Sabha in India. The trio of transgender contenders ran as independents.
A total 3,462 votes were cast for Dhanbad candidate Sunaina Kinnar. South Delhi candidate Rajan Singh received 325 votes. 1,124 votes were cast in favor of Durga Mausi, a Madhya Pradesh candidate from Damoh.
All of the candidates failed to keep their security deposits and none of them even came close to winning.
The BSP contenders, who were running for all seven seats, held the third spot.
None of the other contenders received more than 20,000 votes, with the exception of the 14 who were either the winners or the runners-up.
Ashok Kumar Gupta, an independent candidate from Chandani Chowk, received the fewest votes—140—among the total votes cast in all seven constituencies.
After not receiving the necessary number of votes to qualify for the Lok Sabha in 2024, the three transgender candidates forfeited their security deposits.
Not only did the Bharat Rashtra Samithi lose all 17 Lok Sabha seats that it ran for in Telangana, but eight of its candidates also lost their security deposits.
Gaddam Srinivas Yadav, the party’s candidate from Hyderabad, received 18,641 votes, making him the BRS candidate with the fewest votes among the list of candidates that lost their deposits.
Waliullah Sameer, a Congress candidate from Hyderabad, was one of the other deposit losers who sided with him. The deposists for two BJP candidates, Prof. Azmeera Seetaram Naik from Mahbubabad and Vinod Rao Tandra from Khammam, were also defeated.
Some statistics from Lok Saha Election 2024
86.17% (7193) of the contesting candidates in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections lost their deposits
Number of candidates for national parties that have lost their deposits:
BSP: 476/488 (97.5%)
CPIM: 30/52 (57.69%)
BJP: 27/441 (6.12%)
INC: 26/328 (7.9%)
TMC: 5/48 (10.41%)
NPP: 1/3 (33.33%)
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