All 121 Illiterate Candidates Lose LS Polls, Know Educational Qualification of Winners

New Delhi: All 121 candidates, who declared themselves illiterate, lost the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections, stated the poll rights body, Association of Democratic Reforms.

As per the ADR report, about 105, or 19 per cent, winning candidates declared their educational qualification to be between class 5 pass and 12, while 420, or 77 per cent, winning candidates declared of having a graduate degree or above. Seventeen winning candidates were diploma holders and one winner was “just literate,” the report said.

There were two winning candidates who have studied up to class 5, while four studied up to class 8.

Thirty-four candidates declared they studied up to class 10, and 65 up to class 12.