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Analysis · votes into seats

What a vote was worth

Meghalaya, 2024. 10 candidates from 6 parties contested 2 seats; 2 parties won at least one.

Parties contesting
6
2024 · 2 of them won a seat
Largest party
1seats
Indian National Congress · 34.4% of votes
Deposits lost
50.0%
5 of 10 candidates
Effective parties
3.4
By vote share · lower means more dominant
Candidates per seat
5.0
10 for 2 declared seats

[02]Vote share against seat share

2024 · bar is vote share, marker is seat share

First-past-the-post rarely pays out in proportion. The bar is the share of votes a party won; the marker is the share of seats it took. A marker to the right of its bar means the system paid the party more seats than its votes alone would buy.

Indian National Congr… 34.4%1 seat · +15.6 pts
Voice of the People P… 33.69%1 seat · +16.31 pts
National People's Par… 24.49%0 seats · -24.49 pts
All India Trinamool C… 2.87%0 seats · -2.87 pts
United Democratic Par… 2.63%0 seats · -2.63 pts
Independent 1.92%0 seats · -1.92 pts

[03]Strike rate — candidates who won

2024 · parties fielding 5 or more

[04]Deposits lost

Candidates under a sixth of the valid vote · newest first
2024 50.0%5 of 10
2019 55.56%5 of 9
2016 0.0%0 of 2
2014 50.0%5 of 10
2009 54.55%6 of 11
2006 50.0%2 of 4
2004 20.0%1 of 5
1999 71.43%10 of 14
1998 76.92%10 of 13
1996 70.0%7 of 10

[05]How crowded the ballot got

Candidates per seat · newest first
2024 5.010 candidates
2019 4.59 candidates
2016 2.02 candidates
2014 5.010 candidates
2009 5.511 candidates
2006 4.04 candidates
2004 2.55 candidates
1999 7.014 candidates
1998 6.513 candidates
1996 5.010 candidates

[06]Independents

Candidates standing without a party · newest first
2024 30 won
2019 30 won
2016 00 won
2014 30 won
2009 30 won
2006 20 won
2004 10 won
1999 20 won
1998 00 won
1996 41 won

[07]Computed insights

Arithmetic over the table above, not commentary

  1. Voice of the People Party took 50.0% of the seats on 33.69% of the votes — a seat bonus of +16.31 pts.

    seat share 50.0 - vote share 33.69

  2. National People's Party went the other way: 24.49% of votes returned only 0.0% of seats.

    seat share 0.0 - vote share 24.49

  3. 50.0% of candidates lost their deposit in 2024 — 5 of 10 polled under a sixth of the valid vote.

    5/10 below the one-sixth threshold

  4. 3 independents stood and 0 won — a strike rate of 0.0%.

    0/3 independents

  5. The field has grown more fragmented since 1972: the effective number of parties moved from 1.7 to 3.4.

    Laakso-Taagepera 1/sum(share^2), 1972 vs 2024
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