Chhattisgarh, 2024. 220 candidates from 33 parties contested 11 seats; 2 parties won at least one.
Parties contesting
33
2024 · 2 of them won a seat
Largest party
10seats
Bharatiya Janta Party · 53.13% of votes
Deposits lost
90.0%
198 of 220 candidates
Effective parties
2.2
By vote share · lower means more dominant
Candidates per seat
20.0
220 for 11 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
53.13%10 seats · +37.78 pts
Indian National Congr…
41.43%1 seat · -32.34 pts
Independent
2.16%0 seats · -2.16 pts
Bahujan Samaj Party
1.18%0 seats · -1.18 pts
Gondvana Gantantra Pa…
0.57%0 seats · -0.57 pts
[03]Strike rate — candidates who won
2024 · parties fielding 5 or more
Bharatiya Janta Party
90.91%10/11
Indian National Congr…
9.09%1/11
Independent
0.0%0/107
Bahujan Samaj Party
0.0%0/11
Gondvana Gantantra Pa…
0.0%0/9
Hamar Raj Party
0.0%0/8
Bhartiya Shakti Chetn…
0.0%0/9
Shakti Sena (bharat D…
0.0%0/6
Rashtriya Jansabha Pa…
0.0%0/7
[04]Deposits lost
Candidates under a sixth of the valid vote · newest first
2024
90.0%198 of 220
2019
86.75%144 of 166
2014
89.57%189 of 211
2009
86.52%154 of 178
2004
77.45%79 of 102
[05]How crowded the ballot got
Candidates per seat · newest first
2024
20.0220 candidates
2019
15.1166 candidates
2014
19.2211 candidates
2009
16.2178 candidates
2004
9.3102 candidates
[06]Independents
Candidates standing without a party · newest first
2024
1070 won
2019
540 won
2014
1060 won
2009
970 won
2004
340 won
[07]Computed insights
Arithmetic over the table above, not commentary
Bharatiya Janta Party took 90.91% of the seats on 53.13% of the votes — a seat bonus of +37.78 pts.
seat share 90.91 - vote share 53.13
Indian National Congress went the other way: 41.43% of votes returned only 9.09% of seats.
seat share 9.09 - vote share 41.43
90.0% of candidates lost their deposit in 2024 — 198 of 220 polled under a sixth of the valid vote.
198/220 below the one-sixth threshold
107 independents stood and 0 won — a strike rate of 0.0%.