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Lok Sabha Elections 2014

Analysis of Criminal Background, Financial, Education, Gender and other details of Candidates and
Asset Comparison of Re-contesting MPs

National Election Watch (NEW) and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of 8163 candidates out of 8230 candidates who have contested in the Lok Sabha 2014 Elections. The rest of the candidates were not analysed due to unclear/incomplete affidavits uploaded on the ECI website at the time of making of this report. 
Please find the following detailed reports in English attached with this mail:
  1. Analysis of Criminal, Financial and Other Background Details of Candidates contesting in Lok Sabha 2014 Elections
  2. Analysis of Asset Comparison of Re-contesting MPs for Lok Sabha 2014 Elections
For full details of candidates with serious criminal cases click here
For full details of crorepati candidates click here
Phase
Date of Poll (2014)
No. of contesting candidates
No. of Candidates analysed
No. of Constituencies
No. of Candidates with Criminal Cases
% of Candidates with Criminal Cases
No. of Crorepati Candidates
% of Crorepati Candidates
Average Assets
1
7th April
64
64
6
6
9%
16
25%
Rs.5.75 crores
2
9th April
37
37
7
1
3%
23
62%
Rs.9.12 crores
3
10th April
1419
1395
91
263
19%
397
28%
Rs.3.04 crores
4
12th April
74
74
7
9
12%
20
27%
Rs.2.12 crores
5
17th April
1761
1739
121
279
16%
464
27%
Rs. 8.14 crores
6
24th April
2077
2071
117
322
16%
504
24%
Rs. 2.76 crores
7
30th April
1295
1292
89
222
17%
341
26%
Rs. 3.77 crores
8
7th May
897
890
64
177
20%
272
31%
Rs. 5.90 crores
9
12th May
606
601
41
119
20%
171
28%
Rs. 8.50 crores
Total 
8230
8163
543
1398
17%
2208
27%
Rs. 3.16 crores

​Criminal Background​
  • Candidates with Criminal Cases: Out of the 8163 candidates analysed, 1398 (17%) candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves. Out of 7810 candidates analysed during Lok Sabha 2009 elections, 1158 (15%) candidates haddeclared criminal cases against themselves.
  • Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: 889 (11%) candidates have declared serious criminal cases including cases related to murder, attempt to murder, communal disharmony, kidnapping, crimes against women etc. Out of 7810candidates analysed during Lok Sabha 2009 elections, 608 (8%) candidates had declared serious criminal cases against themselves.
  • Candidates with cases related to murder: 57 candidates have declared cases related to murder. Out of these 12candidates have been fielded by BSP, 4 candidates have been fielded by BJP, CPI(ML)L and SP each, 3 candidates by RJDand JD(U) each, 1 candidate by INC, AAP, AITC, and CPI(M) each and 12 candidates are independents.
  • Candidates with cases related to Attempt to Murder: 173 candidates have declared cases of attempt to murder. Out of these, 19 candidates have been fielded by BJP and CPI(ML)L each, 18 candidates by BSP, 14 candidates by SP, 7candidates by AAP and JD(U) each, , 6 candidates by AITC and INC, 5 candidates by RJD, 4 candidates by JVM(P), 2candidates by CPI(M) and DMK each and 28 candidates are independents.
  • Candidates with cases related to Crimes against Women: 58 candidates have declared cases related to crimes against women. 6 candidates have declared cases of rape. Out of 58 candidates with cases related to crimes against women, 6candidates have been fielded by BSP, 3 candidates by AITC, BJP, INC and SP each, 2 candidates by JD(U), 1 candidate byAAP, CPI, CPI(ML)L, MNS, RJD, Shiv Sena and YSRCP each and 18 candidates are independents.
  • Candidates with cases related to causing Communal Disharmony: 54 candidates with cases related to causingcommunal disharmony. Out of these, 18 candidates were fielded by BJP, 3 candidates by CPI(ML)L and BSP each, 2candidates by AAP, SP and INC each, 1 candidate by RLD, YSRCP and TRS each and 6 candidates are Independents.
  • Candidates with cases related to Robbery and Dacoity: 57 candidates have declared cases related to robbery and dacoity. Out of these, 10 candidates have been fielded by BJP, BSP and SP each, 3 candidates by AAP, 2 candidates byINC, JD(U) and RJD each, 1 candidate by AITC, CPI(M), DMK and MNS each and 9 candidates are Independents.
  • Candidates with cases related to Kidnapping: 40 candidates have declared cases related to Kidnapping. Out of these, 6candidates have been fielded by BSP and SP, 4 candidates by INC, 3 candidates by BJP and DMK each, 2 candidates byAITC and CPI(ML)L each, 1 candidate by AAP, JD(U), LJP, MNS and RJD each and 5 candidates are independents.
  • Party wise Candidates with Criminal Cases: 128 (28%) out of 462 candidates from INC, 140 (33%) out of 426 candidates from BJP, 65 (15%) out of 427 candidates from AAP, 114 (23%) out of 501 candidates fielded by BSP and 307 (10%) out of 3182 Independent candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.
  • Party wise Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: 61 (13%) out of 462 candidates from INC, 89 (21%) out of 426 candidates from BJP, 42 (10%) out of 427 candidates from AAP, 75 (15%) out of 501 candidates fielded by BSP and 188 (6%)out of 3182 Independent candidates have declared serious criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.​
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  • Red Alert Constituencies: 245 constituencies have at least 3 candidates with declared criminal cases. Vaishali constituency, Bihar and Raver Constituency, Maharashtra have the highest number of contesting candidates i.e. 10 with criminal cases against them. 196 constituencies during Lok Sabha 2009 elections had atleast 3 candidates with declared criminal cases. 
Financial Background
  • ​Crorepati Candidates: Out of the 8163 candidates analysed, 2208 (27%) are crorepatis. Out of 7810 candidates analysed during Lok Sabha 2009 elections, 1249 (16%) candidates were crorepatis.
  • Party-wise Crorepati Candidates: 365 (79%) out of 462 candidates in INC, 309 (73%) out of 426 candidates in BJP, 192 (45%) out of 427 candidates in AAP, 161 (32%) out of 501 candidates in BSP and 342 (11%) out of 3182 Independent candidates have declared assets worth more than Rs. 1 crore.​
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  • Average Assets*: The average assets per candidate contesting in the Lok Sabha 2014 elections is Rs.3.16 crores.
  • Party-wise Average Assets*: Among major parties, the average assets per candidate for 461 INC candidates is Rs 13.27 crores, 426 BJP candidates have average assets of Rs.10.32 crores, 427 AAP candidates have average assets worth ofRs.2.77 crores and 501 BSP candidates have average assets of Rs. 3.53 crores.
*The following outliers were removed from the average assets analysis to give a true representation of the party-wise average assets distribution;
Nandan Nilekani of INC from Bangalore South Constituency, Karnataka with Rs. 7710.29 crores of total assets, Shamali Das an Independent candidate from Jadavpur Constituency and Kolkata Dakshin constituency, West Bengal with Rs. 2000 crores of total assets, Anil Kumar Sharma of JD(U) from Jahanabad constituency, Bihar with Rs. 849.98 crores of total assets, Jayadev Galla of TDP from Guntur constituency, Andhra Pradesh, Rs. 683.05 crores of total assets, Ayodhya Rama Reddy Alla of YSRCP from Narasaraopet constituency, Andhra Pradesh with Rs. 654.33 crores of total assets and Konda Vishweshwar Reddy of TRS from Chevella constituency with Rs. 528.62 crores of total assets. 
  • Party-wise Asset Rank: 348 (75%) out of 462 INC candidates occupy the top three highest assets positions amongst all the contesting candidates in their respective constituencies. Similarly, 283 (66%) out of 426 BJP candidates, 109 (22%) out of 501BSP candidates and 115 (27%) out of 427 AAP candidates occupy the top three highest assets positions in their constituency.
Note: The following graph analyses the number of candidates fielded by political parties who have declared either the highest total assets in their constituency (among the candidates analysed for the constituency), or the second highest or the third highest.​

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  •  High Asset Candidates*: 112 candidates have declared more than Rs.50 crores worth of assets. The top three candidates with highest assets are given below:
S.No.
Name
State
Constituency
Party Name
Total Assets (Rs)
PAN Given
1
Nandan Nilekani
Karnataka
Bangalore South
INC
77,10,29,57,219
 7710 Crore+
Y
2
Shamali Das
West Bengal
Kolkata Dakshin and Jadavpur
IND
20,00,00,60,000
 2000 Crore+
Y
3
Anil Kumar Sharma
Bihar
Jahanabad
JD(U)
8,49,88,03,720
 849 Crore+
Y
*Total Assets includes income of self, spouse and dependents.
  • ​Candidates with High Liabilities: A total of 351 candidates have declared liabilities of Rs. 1 crore and above. Out of these 351 candidates, 59 have declared liabilities of Rs. 10 crore and above. These candidates are as given below:
S.No.
Name
State
Constituency
Party Name
Total Assets(Rs)
Liabilities (Rs)
PAN Given
1
R. Prabhakara Reddy
Karnataka
Bangalore Rural
JD(S)
2,24,36,12,066
 224 Crore+
2,21,80,03,086
 221 Crore+
Y
2
Moni Kumar Subba
Assam
Tezpur
IND
3,06,75,35,137
 306 Crore+
1,40,07,40,132
 140 Crore+
Y
3
Anil Kumar Sharma
Bihar
Jahanabad
JD(U)
8,49,88,03,720
 849 Crore+
1,09,53,93,904
 109 Crore+
Y
  • Crorepati Candidates with no PAN: 100 candidates with total assets worth more than Rs. 1 crore have not declared PAN details.
  • Candidates with High Income as declared in ITR*: 129 candidates have declared total annual income of more than Rs. 1 crore. The top three candidates with highest declared annual income are given below:
S.No.

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