Throughout the world, the issue of women’s representation in legislative has emerged as one of the key issue to determine the level and extent of their empowerment. Women have played a significant role in the growth and development of parliamentary democracy of India. India is one of the few countries where regular competitive parliamentary elections have taken place since the attainment of independence in 1947. Promulgation of the constitution in 1950, women were brought at per with men and given equal rights to participate in the political process and since the constitutional recognition of this equality more are more women have some forward to participate in electoral politics and some of the successful women candidates have adorned the seats of various representative institution in the country but the number of women in parliament and state legislative assemblies is marginal. The present paper deals with the women participation as voters, candidates and representation in five state assemblies i.e. Goa, Manipur, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.