Telangana, 2024. 525 candidates from 68 parties contested 17 seats; 3 parties won at least one.
Parties contesting
68
2024 · 3 of them won a seat
Largest party
8seats
Indian National Congress · 40.29% of votes
Deposits lost
92.19%
484 of 525 candidates
Effective parties
3.2
By vote share · lower means more dominant
Candidates per seat
30.9
525 for 17 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…
40.29%8 seats · +6.77 pts
Bharatiya Janta Party
35.35%8 seats · +11.71 pts
All India Majlis-e-it…
3.02%1 seat · +2.86 pts
Bharat Rashtra Samithi
16.7%0 seats · -16.7 pts
Independent
2.26%0 seats · -2.26 pts
[03]Strike rate — candidates who won
2024 · parties fielding 5 or more
Indian National Congr…
47.06%8/17
Bharatiya Janta Party
47.06%8/17
Bharat Rashtra Samithi
0.0%0/17
Independent
0.0%0/286
Alliance of Democrati…
0.0%0/14
Bahujan Samaj Party
0.0%0/15
Dharma Samaj Party
0.0%0/15
Pyramid Party of India
0.0%0/9
India Praja Bandhu Pa…
0.0%0/6
Bahujan Mukti Party
0.0%0/7
[04]Deposits lost
Candidates under a sixth of the valid vote · newest first
2024
92.19%484 of 525
2019
91.2%404 of 443
2014
84.53%224 of 265
[05]How crowded the ballot got
Candidates per seat · newest first
2024
30.9525 candidates
2019
26.1443 candidates
2014
15.6265 candidates
[06]Independents
Candidates standing without a party · newest first
2024
2860 won
2019
2990 won
2014
1010 won
[07]Computed insights
Arithmetic over the table above, not commentary
Bharatiya Janta Party took 47.06% of the seats on 35.35% of the votes — a seat bonus of +11.71 pts.
seat share 47.06 - vote share 35.35
Bharat Rashtra Samithi went the other way: 16.7% of votes returned only 0.0% of seats.
seat share 0.0 - vote share 16.7
92.19% of candidates lost their deposit in 2024 — 484 of 525 polled under a sixth of the valid vote.
484/525 below the one-sixth threshold
286 independents stood and 0 won — a strike rate of 0.0%.
0/286 independents
The field has grown more concentrated since 2014: the effective number of parties moved from 4.7 to 3.2.