🔆Legislature Insights/Facts

✅ 52% of newly elected MPs in 18th Lok Sabha are first timers

✅ The average age of 18th Lok Sabha is 56 years (lower than 59 of the previous Lok Sabha), 11% MPs are 40 years or younger

✅ 74 MPs (14%) elected to the 18th Lok Sabha are women (marginally lower than 2019), lower than countries like South Africa (46%), UK (35%), USA (29%)

✅ 78% of the MPs of the 18th Lok Sabha have completed at least undergraduate education

✅ 46% MPs have pending criminal cases, 31% have serious pending cases, 93% are worth over Rs 1 crore

✅ The 17th Lok Sabha (2019-24) had fewest sittings amongst all full-term Lok Sabhas till date

✅ About 31% time (17th LS) and 32% the (RS) was spent on discussions other than legislation and budgets

✅ During the 17th Lok Sabha, a total of 179 bills were passed, 58% of which were passed within two weeks on introduction, 35% of them were passed with less than an hour of discussion

✅ 729 Private member bills were introduced in the 17th LS, out of which only 2 were discussed

✅ Only 16% of bills were referred to Parliamentary Committees for detailed scrutiny during the 17th Lok Sabha

✅ 40 countries globally have laws similar to Anti Defection law wrt membership of political parties, but only 6 countries (India, Pakistan, B’desh, Guyana, Sierra Leone & Zimbabwe) have laws mandating legislators to vote according to party directions

✅ The overall success rate of defectors has declined from over 25% before 2004 to around 15% since 2009. In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, 38 out of 264 defectors (14.4%) won. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, only 35 out of 205 defectors (17%) won their seats.

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Saumya Mishra AIR 18, UPSC-CSE 2024
Mains Strategy