What a vote was worth
Jammu and Kashmir, 2024. 100 candidates from 21 parties contested 5 seats; 3 parties won at least one.
[02]Vote share against 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.
[03]Strike rate — candidates who won
[04]Deposits lost
[05]How crowded the ballot got
[06]Independents
[07]Computed insights
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Jammu & Kashmir National Conference took 40.0% of the seats on 22.42% of the votes — a seat bonus of +17.58 pts.
seat share 40.0 - vote share 22.42 -
Indian National Congress went the other way: 19.52% of votes returned only 0.0% of seats.
seat share 0.0 - vote share 19.52 -
89.0% of candidates lost their deposit in 2024 — 89 of 100 polled under a sixth of the valid vote.
89/100 below the one-sixth threshold -
59 independents stood and 1 won — a strike rate of 1.69%.
1/59 independents -
The field has grown more fragmented since 1967: the effective number of parties moved from 2.8 to 5.5.
Laakso-Taagepera 1/sum(share^2), 1967 vs 2024