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Analysis · votes into seats

What a vote was worth

Odisha, 2024. 207 candidates from 37 parties contested 21 seats; 2 parties won at least one.

Parties contesting
37
2024 · 2 of them won a seat
Largest party
20seats
Bharatiya Janta Party · 46.01% of votes
Deposits lost
76.81%
159 of 207 candidates
Effective parties
2.7
By vote share · lower means more dominant
Candidates per seat
9.9
207 for 21 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 46.01%20 seats · +49.23 pts
Indian National Congr… 12.69%1 seat · -7.93 pts
Biju Janata Dal 37.95%0 seats · -37.95 pts
Independent 1.2%0 seats · -1.2 pts
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha 0.55%0 seats · -0.55 pts

[03]Strike rate — candidates who won

2024 · parties fielding 5 or more
Bharatiya Janta Party 95.24%20/21
Indian National Congr… 5.0%1/20
Biju Janata Dal 0.0%0/21
Independent 0.0%0/60
Socialist Unity Centr… 0.0%0/16
Bahujan Samaj Party 0.0%0/18

[04]Deposits lost

Candidates under a sixth of the valid vote · newest first
2024 76.81%159 of 207
2019 71.84%125 of 174
2014 72.96%143 of 196
2009 65.61%103 of 157
2004 57.0%57 of 100
1999 60.0%63 of 105
1998 66.67%90 of 135
1996 77.88%176 of 226
1991 78.51%168 of 214
1989 68.18%90 of 132

[05]How crowded the ballot got

Candidates per seat · newest first
2024 9.9207 candidates
2019 8.3174 candidates
2014 9.3196 candidates
2009 7.5157 candidates
2004 4.8100 candidates
1999 5.0105 candidates
1998 6.4135 candidates
1996 10.8226 candidates
1991 10.2214 candidates
1989 6.3132 candidates

[06]Independents

Candidates standing without a party · newest first
2024 600 won
2019 310 won
2014 320 won
2009 350 won
2004 260 won
1999 230 won
1998 210 won
1996 1360 won
1991 940 won
1989 520 won

[07]Computed insights

Arithmetic over the table above, not commentary

  1. Bharatiya Janta Party took 95.24% of the seats on 46.01% of the votes — a seat bonus of +49.23 pts.

    seat share 95.24 - vote share 46.01

  2. Biju Janata Dal went the other way: 37.95% of votes returned only 0.0% of seats.

    seat share 0.0 - vote share 37.95

  3. 76.81% of candidates lost their deposit in 2024 — 159 of 207 polled under a sixth of the valid vote.

    159/207 below the one-sixth threshold

  4. 60 independents stood and 0 won — a strike rate of 0.0%.

    0/60 independents

  5. The field has grown more concentrated since 1952: the effective number of parties moved from 3.5 to 2.7.

    Laakso-Taagepera 1/sum(share^2), 1952 vs 2024
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