Madhya Pradesh, 2024. 366 candidates from 69 parties contested 29 seats; 1 parties won at least one.
Parties contesting
69
2024 · 1 of them won a seat
Largest party
29seats
Bharatiya Janta Party · 60.14% of votes
Deposits lost
84.15%
308 of 366 candidates
Effective parties
2.1
By vote share · lower means more dominant
Candidates per seat
12.6
366 for 29 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.
Bharatiya Janta Party
60.14%29 seats · +39.87 pts
Indian National Congr…
32.91%0 seats · -32.91 pts
Bahujan Samaj Party
3.33%0 seats · -3.33 pts
Independent
1.61%0 seats · -1.61 pts
Gondvana Gantantra Pa…
0.56%0 seats · -0.56 pts
[03]Strike rate — candidates who won
2024 · parties fielding 5 or more
Bharatiya Janta Party
100.0%29/29
Indian National Congr…
0.0%0/27
Bahujan Samaj Party
0.0%0/29
Independent
0.0%0/161
Gondvana Gantantra Pa…
0.0%0/9
Bharat Adivasi Party
0.0%0/5
Bhartiya Shakti Chetn…
0.0%0/11
Peoples Party of Indi…
0.0%0/7
Aazad Samaj Party (ka…
0.0%0/5
Socialist Unity Centr…
0.0%0/6
[04]Deposits lost
Candidates under a sixth of the valid vote · newest first
2024
84.15%308 of 366
2019
86.76%380 of 438
2014
84.13%318 of 378
2009
85.78%368 of 429
2004
78.91%232 of 294
1999
75.29%259 of 344
1998
78.25%313 of 400
1996
93.17%1,173 of 1,259
1991
87.56%598 of 683
1989
82.45%404 of 490
[05]How crowded the ballot got
Candidates per seat · newest first
2024
12.6366 candidates
2019
15.1438 candidates
2014
13.0378 candidates
2009
14.8429 candidates
2004
10.1294 candidates
1999
8.6344 candidates
1998
10.0400 candidates
1996
31.51,259 candidates
1991
17.1683 candidates
1989
12.3490 candidates
[06]Independents
Candidates standing without a party · newest first
2024
1610 won
2019
1770 won
2014
1260 won
2009
2130 won
2004
1240 won
1999
1160 won
1998
1280 won
1996
1,0461 won
1991
4380 won
1989
3061 won
[07]Computed insights
Arithmetic over the table above, not commentary
Bharatiya Janta Party took 100.0% of the seats on 60.14% of the votes — a seat bonus of +39.87 pts.
seat share 100.0 - vote share 60.14
Indian National Congress went the other way: 32.91% of votes returned only 0.0% of seats.
seat share 0.0 - vote share 32.91
84.15% of candidates lost their deposit in 2024 — 308 of 366 polled under a sixth of the valid vote.
308/366 below the one-sixth threshold
161 independents stood and 0 won — a strike rate of 0.0%.
0/161 independents
The field has grown more concentrated since 1962: the effective number of parties moved from 4.4 to 2.1.