Out of the over 600,000 voters, nearly 46 percent voters are women in the city.
It is for the first time in Chandigarh that three out of the four contestants from major political parties are women.
Sitting MP Pawan Kumar Bansal, who was forced to resign as railway minister in May last year after his nephew Vijay Singla was arrested by the CBI after he took a Rs.90-lakh bribe from a senior railway officer to get him a lucrative posting, is being challenged by three women candidates - a first in Chandigarh.
