Members of the 16th Lok Sabha were elected during the 2014 Indian general election. The elections were conducted in 9 phases from 7 April 2014 to 12 May 2014 by the Election Commission of India. The results of the election were declared on 16 May 2014. The Bharatiya Janata Party (of the NDA) achieved an absolute majority with 282 seats out of 543, 166 seats more than in the previous 15th Lok Sabha. Its PM candidate Narendra Modi took office on 26 May 2014 as the 14th prime minister of India. The first session was convened from 4 to 11 June 2014.
There was the leader of the opposition in the 16th Lok Sabha as the Indian Parliament rules state that a party in the Lok Sabha must have at least 10% (55) of the total seats (545) to be considered the opposition party. The Indian National Congress (of the UPA) could only manage 44 seats, while the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party from Tamil Nadu came a close third with 37 seats. Mallikarjun Kharge was declared the leader of the Indian National Congress in the Lok Sabha.
Five sitting members from Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of Indian Parliament, were elected to 16th Lok Sabha after the 2014 Indian general election.
The pro-tem Speaker Kamal Nath was administered oath on 4 June 2014 & presided over the election of the Speaker of the Lok Sabha. Sumitra Mahajan was elected as its Speaker on 6 June 2014 and would remain in office until the day before the first sitting of the 17th Lok Sabha. M Thambidurai was elected as Deputy Speaker on 13 August 2014.
Members
Speaker: Sumitra Mahajan, BJP Deputy Speaker: M. Thambidurai, AIADMK Secretary-General: Snehlata Shrivastava Leader of the House: Narendra Modi, BJP Leader of the Opposition: Mallikarjun Kharge, INC
Party-wise Distribution of Seats Following 36 political parties were represented in 16th Lok Sabha: Party Abbr. Seats Leader in Lok Sabha Bharatiya Janata Party BJP 282 Narendra Modi Indian National Congress INC 55 Mallikarjun Kharge All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam AIADMK 37 Ponnusamy Venugopal All India Trinamool Congress AITC 34 Sudip Bandyopadhyay Biju Janata Dal BJD 18 Bhartruhari Mahtab Shiv Sena SS 18 Anant Geete Telugu Desam Party TDP 15 Thota Narasimham Telangana Rashtra Samithi TRS 11 A. P. Jithender Reddy Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPI(M) 9 P. Karunakaran Samajwadi Party SP 5 Mulayam Singh Yadav Lok Janshakti Party LJP 6 Ram Vilas Paswan Nationalist Congress Party NCP 6 Supriya Sule Aam Aadmi Party AAP 4 Bhagwant Mann Rashtriya Janata Dal RJD 4 Jay Prakash Narayan Yadav Shiromani Akali Dal SAD 4 Ranjit Singh Brahmpura YSR Congress Party YSRCP 8 Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy All India United Democratic Front AIUDF 3 Badruddin Ajmal Independents IND 3 - Rashtriya Lok Samta Party RLSP 3 Upendra Kushwaha Apna Dal AD 2 Anupriya Patel Indian National Lok Dal INLD 2 Charanjeet Singh Rori Indian Union Muslim League IUML 2 E. T. Mohammed Basheer Janata Dal (Secular) JD(S) 2 H. D. Deve Gowda Janata Dal (United) JD(U) 2 Kaushalendra Kumar Jharkhand Mukti Morcha JMM 2 Shibu Soren All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen AIMIM 1 Asaduddin Owaisi All India N.R. Congress AINRC 1 R. Radhakrishnan Communist Party of India CPI 1 C. N. Jayadevan Jammu & Kashmir National Conference JKNC 1 Farooq Abdullah Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party JKPDP 1 Muzaffar Hussain Baig Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party NDPP 1 Tokheho Yepthomi Pattali Makkal Katchi PMK 1 Anbumani Ramadoss Rashtriya Lok Dal RLD 1 Begum Tabassum Hasan Revolutionary Socialist Party RSP 1 N. K. Premachandran Sikkim Democratic Front SDF 1 Prem Das Rai Swabhimani Paksha SWP 1 Raju Shetti Nominated Anglo-Indians (Bharatiya Janata Party) NOM 2 Richard Hay and George Baker Vacant 26 (Anantnag, Ongole, Kadapa, Nellore, Tirupati, Rajampet, Kottayam, Kendrapara, Tura, Katihar, Begusarai, Bangalore South, Wayanad, Kishanganj, Ladakh, Malkajgiri, Peddapalle, Chhindwara, Durg, Khajuraho, Dewas, Ajmer, Dausa, Aska, Viluppuram and Jadavpur)
Criminal background
About one-third of all winners had at least one pending criminal case against them, with some having serious criminal cases.
* Criteria for "serious" criminal cases: Offence for which maximum punishment is of 5 years or more. If an offense is non-bailable. If it is an electoral offense (e.g. IPC 171E or bribery). Offence related to loss to the exchequer. Offences that are assault, murder, kidnap, rape-related. Offences that are mentioned in the Representation of the People Act (Section 8). Offences under the Prevention of Corruption Act. Crimes against women.
Compared to the 15th Lok Sabha, there was an increase of members with criminal cases. In 2009, 158 (30%) of the 521 members analysed had criminal cases, of which 77 (15%) had serious criminal cases.
Financial background
As of May 2014, out of the 542 members analysed, 443 (82%) are having assets of or more. In the 15th Lok Sabha, out of 521 members analysed, 300 (58%) members had assets of or more.
The average assets per member are (in 2009, this figure was ). Political party No. of members Average assets per member BJP 281 INC 44 AIADMK 37 AITC 34 Others 146 Total 542 (Excluding Speaker)
Age Age-wise distribution of the 542 members in the 16th Lok Sabha as of 16 May 2018 Age Group No. of members Age> 80 8 Age between 71 and 80 53 Age between 61 and 70 161 Age between 51 and 60 164 Age between 41 and 50 103 Age <= 40 46
Membership by party
No. of Lok Sabha MP's partywise : (As on 23 May 2019)
Alliance Party No. of MPs Leader of the PartyNational Democratic AllianceSeats: 353 282 Narendra Modi 37 P. Venugopal 18 Vinayak Raut 4 Harsimrat Kaur Badal 2 Kaushalendra Kumar 6 Ram Vilas Paswan 2 Anupriya Patel 1 T.Yepthomi 1 Prem Das Rai 3 United Progressive AllianceSeats: 78 44Mallikarjun Kharge 17 K Ram Mohan Naidu 5 Supriya Sule 3 Farooq Abdullah 3 E. T. Mohammed Basheer 2H. D. Deve Gowda 2 Shibu Soren 1 PremchandranOpposition - OthersSeats: 116 34 Sudip Bandyopadhyay 8 Midhun Reddy 21 Pinaki Misra 11 Nageswara Rao 5 Mulayam Yadav 9 1 2 A. Owaisi 4 Bhagwant Mann
Bills During the tenure of the 16th Lok Sabha, 21% of bills were referred to Parliamentary committees for examination
Subsequent by-elections and vacancies State Constituency Name of elected M.P. Party affiliation Andhra Pradesh Ongole Y. V. Subba Reddy (resigned on 20 June 2018) Vacant Kadapa Y. S. Avinash Reddy (resigned on 20 June 2018) Vacant Nellore Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy (resigned on 20 June 2018) Vacant Tirupati Varaprasad Rao Velagapalli (resigned on 20 June 2018) Vacant Rajampet P. V. Midhun Reddy (resigned on 20 June 2018) Vacant Assam Lakhimpur Sarbananda Sonowal (resigned on 23 May 2016) Pradan Baruah (elected on 22 November 2016) Bihar Araria Mohammed Taslimuddin (died on 17 September 2017) Sarfaraz Alam (elected on 14 March 2018) Kishanganj Mohammad Asrarul Haque (died on 7 December 2018) Vacant Katihar Tariq Anwar (resigned on 28 September 2018) Vacant Begusarai Bhola Singh (died on 19 October 2018) Vacant Chhattisgarh Durg Tamradhwaj Sahu (resigned on 21 December 2018) Vacant Gujarat Vadodara Narendra Modi (resigned on 29 May 2014) Ranjanben Bhatt (elected on 16 September 2014) Jammu and Kashmir Srinagar Tariq Hameed Karra (resigned on 18 October 2016) Farooq Abdullah (elected on 15 April 2017) Anantnag Mehbooba Mufti (resigned on 4 July 2016) Vacant Ladakh Thupstan Chhewang (resigned on 13 December 2018) Vacant Karnataka Bellary B. Sriramulu (resigned on 18 May 2018) V. S. Ugrappa (elected on 6 November 2018) Shimoga B. S. Yeddyurappa (resigned on 18 May 2018) B. Y. Raghavendra (elected on 6 November 2018) Mandya C. S. Puttaraju (resigned on 21 May 2018) L. R. Shivarame Gowda (elected on 6 November 2018) Bangalore South Ananth Kumar (died on 12 November 2018) Vacant Kerala Wayanad M. I. Shanavas (died on 21 November 2018) Vacant Malappuram E. Ahamed (died on 1 February 2017) P. K. Kunhalikutty (elected on 17 April 2017) Kottayam Jose K. Mani (ceased on 14 June 2018) Vacant Madhya Pradesh Khajuraho Nagendra Singh (resigned on 21 December 2018) Vacant Shahdol Dalpat Singh Paraste (died on 1 June 2016) Gyan Singh (elected on 22 November 2016) Chhindwara Kamal Nath (resigned on 17 December 2018) Vacant Dewas Manohar Untwal (resigned on 21 December 2018) Vacant Ratlam Dileep Singh Bhuria (died on 24 June 2015) Kantilal Bhuria (elected on 24 November 2015) Maharashtra Bhandara–Gondiya Nanabhau Patole (resigned on 8 December 2017) Madhukar Kukde (elected on 31 May 2018) Palghar Chintaman Wanaga (died on 30 January 2018) Rajendra Gavit (elected on 31 May 2018) Beed Gopinath Munde (died on 3 June 2014) Pritam Munde (elected on 19 October 2014) Meghalaya TuraP. A. Sangma (died on 4 March 2016) Conrad Sangma (elected on 19 May 2016 and resigned on 4 September 2018) Vacant Nagaland NagalandNeiphiu Rio (resigned on 22 February 2018) Tokheho Yepthomi (elected on 31 May 2018) Odisha Kandhamal Hemendra Chandra Singh (died on 5 September 2014) Pratyusha Rajeshwari Singh (elected on 19 October 2015) Kendrapara Baijayant Panda (resigned on 18 July 2018) Vacant Aska Ladu Kishore Swain (died on 6 February 2019) Vacant Punjab Gurdaspur Vinod Khanna (died on 27 April 2017) Sunil Jakhar (elected on 15 October 2017) Amritsar Amarinder Singh (resigned on 23 November 2016) Gurjeet Singh Aujla (elected on 11 March 2017) Rajasthan Alwar Chand Nath (died on 17 September 2017) Karan Singh Yadav (elected on 1 February 2018) Dausa Harish Meena (resigned on 24 December 2018) VacantAjmer Sanwar Lal Jat (died on 9 August 2017) Raghu Sharma (elected on 1 February 2018 and resigned on 21 December 2018) Vacant Tamil Nadu Viluppuram S. Rajendran (died on 23 February 2019) Vacant Telangana Peddapalle Balka Suman (resigned on 17 December 2018) Vacant Medak K. Chandrashekar Rao (resigned on 27 May 2014) Kotha Prabhakar Reddy (elected on 16 September 2014) Malkajgiri Malla Reddy (resigned on 14 December 2018) Vacant Warangal Kadiyam Srihari (resigned on 11 June 2015) Pasunuri Dayakar (elected on 24 November 2015) Uttar Pradesh Kairana Hukum Singh (died on 3 February 2018) Begum Tabassum Hasan (elected on 31 May 2018) Mainpuri Mulayam Singh Yadav (resigned on 29 May 2014) Tej Pratap Singh Yadav (elected on 16 September 2014) Phulpur Keshav Prasad Maurya (resigned on 21 September 2017) Nagendra Pratap Singh Patel (elected on 14 March 2018) Gorakhpur Yogi Adityanath (resigned on 21 September 2017) Praveen Kumar Nishad (elected on 14 March 2018) West Bengal Cooch Behar Renuka Sinha (died on 17 August 2016) Parthapratim Roy (elected on 22 November 2016) BangaonKapil Krishna Thakur (died on 13 October 2014) Mamata Thakur (elected on 16 February 2015) Jadavpur Sugata Bose (resigned on 12 March 2019) Vacant Uluberia Sultan Ahmed (died on 4 September 2017) Sajda Ahmed (elected on 1 February 2018) Tamluk Suvendu Adhikari (resigned on 19 May 2016) Dibyendu Adhikari (elected on 22 November 2016)
Notes
References
List of Member of Parliament of 16th Lok Sabha
External links
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