Analysis · side by side

The states, ranked

Lok Sabha 2014. 36 states and union territories, 544 seats, ranked side by side.

States compared

2014 · 544 seats in total

Highest turnout

87.82%

Nagaland

Lowest turnout

49.53%

Jammu and Kashmir

Closest contests

1.4%

Mizoram · median margin

Most crowded ballot

30.0

Puducherry · candidates per seat

[01]Turnout

Votes as a share of electors · 2014

Nagaland 87.82%1 seats

Lakshadweep 86.61%1 seats

Tripura 84.72%2 seats

Dadra and Nagar Haveli 84.07%1 seats

Sikkim 83.37%1 seats

West Bengal 82.16%42 seats

Puducherry 82.1%1 seats

Assam 79.88%14 seats

Manipur 79.62%2 seats

Andhra Pradesh 78.82%26 seats

Arunachal Pradesh 78.61%2 seats

Daman and Diu 78.01%1 seats

Goa 77.02%2 seats

Kerala 73.89%20 seats

[02]How close the contests were

Median winning margin · closest first

Mizoram 1.4%1 seats

Lakshadweep 3.55%1 seats

Dadra and Nagar Haveli 3.76%1 seats

Kerala 3.85%20 seats

Andaman and Nicobar I… 4.1%1 seats

Punjab 5.3%13 seats

Andhra Pradesh 6.7%26 seats

Meghalaya 7.6%2 seats

Puducherry 8.2%1 seats

Manipur 8.4%2 seats

Karnataka 8.45%28 seats

Arunachal Pradesh 8.6%2 seats

Jammu and Kashmir 9.9%6 seats

Jharkhand 10.3%14 seats

[03]NOTA

None of the above, as a share of votes cast

Puducherry 3.01%22,268 votes

Meghalaya 2.8%30,145 votes

Chhattisgarh 1.84%2,24,889 votes

Dadra and Nagar Haveli 1.79%2,962 votes

Gujarat 1.76%4,54,880 votes

Bihar 1.62%5,81,011 votes

Odisha 1.55%3,32,780 votes

Daman and Diu 1.51%1,316 votes

Mizoram 1.5%6,495 votes

Jharkhand 1.47%1,90,927 votes

Tamil Nadu 1.43%5,82,062 votes

Sikkim 1.4%4,332 votes

Madhya Pradesh 1.32%3,91,837 votes

Goa 1.24%10,103 votes

[04]Candidates per seat

How crowded the ballot paper was

Puducherry 30.030 candidates

Haryana 23.0230 candidates

Tamil Nadu 21.7845 candidates

Delhi 21.4150 candidates

Punjab 19.5253 candidates

Chhattisgarh 19.2211 candidates

Maharashtra 18.7897 candidates

Jharkhand 17.1240 candidates

Chandigarh 17.017 candidates

Uttar Pradesh 16.11,288 candidates

Telangana 15.6265 candidates

Karnataka 15.5434 candidates

Bihar 15.2607 candidates

Andaman and Nicobar I… 15.015 candidates

[05]Party fragmentation

Effective number of parties by vote share · most fragmented first

Bihar 5.87 of 76 parties won

Kerala 5.57 of 26 parties won

Maharashtra 5.55 of 66 parties won

Jharkhand 4.72 of 40 parties won

Telangana 4.76 of 46 parties won

Jammu and Kashmir 4.52 of 20 parties won

Haryana 4.13 of 43 parties won

Puducherry 4.11 of 12 parties won

Punjab 4.04 of 38 parties won

West Bengal 4.04 of 42 parties won

Meghalaya 4.02 of 7 parties won

Manipur 3.91 of 11 parties won

Assam 3.94 of 19 parties won

Tamil Nadu 3.73 of 46 parties won

[06]Deposits lost

Candidates under a sixth of the valid vote

Tripura 92.0%23 of 25

Haryana 90.0%207 of 230

Puducherry 90.0%27 of 30

Chhattisgarh 89.57%189 of 211

Maharashtra 89.19%800 of 897

Delhi 88.67%133 of 150

Tamil Nadu 88.52%748 of 845

Jharkhand 87.08%209 of 240

Andaman and Nicobar I… 86.67%13 of 15

Punjab 86.56%219 of 253

Uttarakhand 86.49%64 of 74

Karnataka 85.71%372 of 434

Andhra Pradesh 85.56%308 of 360

Telangana 84.53%224 of 265

[07]Computed insights

Arithmetic over the table above, not commentary

Turnout ranged from 87.82% in Nagaland to 49.53% in Jammu and Kashmir — a spread of 38.3 points.
87.82 - 49.53 across 36 states
Mizoram was the hardest fought: its middle seat was won by 1.4%, against 48.9% in Tripura.
median winning margin, 1 seats against 2
Puducherry had the most crowded ballot at 30.0 candidates a seat, and 90.0% of them lost their deposit.
30 candidates over 1 seats
NOTA was highest in Puducherry at 3.01% — 22,268 voters rejected every candidate on the paper.
22,268 NOTA votes over 1 seats
17 states and UTs returned a clean sweep — every seat went to a single party.
17 of 36 scopes with PartiesWon = 1