The Aam Admi Party (AAP) had fielded journalist Anita Pratap in Ernakulam and writer Sara Joseph in Thrissur, but both failed to make any mark.
Despite women outnumbering men in the state, only seven women—Anne Mascrene, who fought the elections in 1952 from the erstwhile Travancore-Cochin state; Susheela Gopalan, A K Premajam, Sathi Devi, C S Sujata (all CPI-M), Bhargavy Thankappan (CPI), besides Congress' Savithri Lakshmanan had made it to the lower House.
