Analysis · side by side

The states, ranked

Lok Sabha 1980. 30 states and union territories, 527 seats, ranked side by side.

States compared

1980 · 527 seats in total

Highest turnout

88.34%

Lakshadweep

Lowest turnout

44.74%

Sikkim

Closest contests

2.0%

Nagaland · median margin

Most crowded ballot

39.0

Chandigarh · candidates per seat

[01]Turnout

Votes as a share of electors · 1980

Lakshadweep 88.34%1 seats

Andaman and Nicobar I… 82.12%1 seats

Manipur 81.65%2 seats

Puducherry 80.36%1 seats

Tripura 79.97%2 seats

West Bengal 70.62%42 seats

Daman and Diu 69.48%2 seats

Arunachal Pradesh 68.6%2 seats

Dadra and Nagar Haveli 67.9%1 seats

Tamil Nadu 66.76%39 seats

Delhi 64.89%7 seats

Haryana 64.76%10 seats

Nagaland 63.9%1 seats

Chandigarh 63.0%1 seats

[02]How close the contests were

Median winning margin · closest first

Nagaland 2.0%1 seats

Arunachal Pradesh 3.65%2 seats

Manipur 4.65%2 seats

Delhi 8.0%7 seats

Kerala 8.45%20 seats

Haryana 8.5%10 seats

Rajasthan 9.3%25 seats

Uttar Pradesh 10.45%85 seats

Bihar 10.46%54 seats

Punjab 14.1%13 seats

Mizoram 15.9%1 seats

Himachal Pradesh 16.2%4 seats

Lakshadweep 16.59%1 seats

West Bengal 16.65%42 seats

[04]Candidates per seat

How crowded the ballot paper was

Chandigarh 39.039 candidates

Delhi 24.0168 candidates

Haryana 13.7137 candidates

Uttar Pradesh 11.81,005 candidates

Punjab 11.3147 candidates

Bihar 11.0594 candidates

Rajasthan 10.1252 candidates

Andaman and Nicobar I… 10.010 candidates

Madhya Pradesh 9.0359 candidates

Maharashtra 8.7415 candidates

Manipur 7.515 candidates

Himachal Pradesh 7.329 candidates

Sikkim 7.07 candidates

West Bengal 6.8285 candidates

[05]Party fragmentation

Effective number of parties by vote share · most fragmented first

Kerala 6.17 of 11 parties won

Manipur 5.22 of 6 parties won

Tamil Nadu 4.44 of 10 parties won

Bihar 4.37 of 14 parties won

Jammu and Kashmir 4.14 of 5 parties won

Daman and Diu 4.12 of 6 parties won

Uttar Pradesh 3.75 of 15 parties won

Haryana 3.33 of 9 parties won

West Bengal 3.35 of 14 parties won

Rajasthan 3.34 of 9 parties won

Tripura 3.21 of 6 parties won

Madhya Pradesh 2.93 of 9 parties won

Maharashtra 2.93 of 13 parties won

Punjab 2.92 of 11 parties won

[06]Deposits lost

Candidates under a sixth of the valid vote

Chandigarh 94.87%37 of 39

Delhi 91.07%153 of 168

Punjab 80.95%119 of 147

Haryana 78.83%108 of 137

Bihar 76.94%457 of 594

Madhya Pradesh 76.6%275 of 359

Uttar Pradesh 76.42%768 of 1,005

Rajasthan 75.79%191 of 252

Meghalaya 75.0%3 of 4

Maharashtra 74.94%311 of 415

Himachal Pradesh 72.41%21 of 29

Sikkim 71.43%5 of 7

West Bengal 70.18%200 of 285

Andaman and Nicobar I… 70.0%7 of 10

[07]Computed insights

Arithmetic over the table above, not commentary

Turnout ranged from 88.34% in Lakshadweep to 44.74% in Sikkim — a spread of 43.6 points.
88.34 - 44.74 across 30 states
Nagaland was the hardest fought: its middle seat was won by 2.0%, against 59.9% in Meghalaya.
median winning margin, 1 seats against 1
Chandigarh had the most crowded ballot at 39.0 candidates a seat, and 94.87% of them lost their deposit.
39 candidates over 1 seats
12 states and UTs returned a clean sweep — every seat went to a single party.
12 of 30 scopes with PartiesWon = 1