Electoral law quota details

According to the Representation of the People Act:

‘The total number of females on each party’s national additional list shall be at least one-third of the total number of persons on that list’ (Section 11B, Art, 5);

‘The total number of females on any party’s list for geographical constituencies, taken together, shall be at least one-third of the total number of persons on those lists taken together for the geographical constituencies in which that party is contesting’ (Section 11B, Art. 6);

‘There shall be no more than twenty per cent of the number of geographical constituencies in which a party is contesting for which the party’s geographical constituency list contain no female’ (Section 11B, Art. 7)