Andhra Pradesh, 2024. 454 candidates from 67 parties contested 25 seats; 4 parties won at least one.
Parties contesting
67
2024 · 4 of them won a seat
Largest party
16seats
Telugu Desam · 38.33% of votes
Deposits lost
88.99%
404 of 454 candidates
Effective parties
3.1
By vote share · lower means more dominant
Candidates per seat
18.2
454 for 25 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.
Telugu Desam
38.33%16 seats · +25.67 pts
Yuvajana Sramika Ryth…
39.96%4 seats · -23.96 pts
Bharatiya Janta Party
11.43%3 seats · +0.57 pts
Janasena Party
4.36%2 seats · +3.64 pts
Indian National Congr…
2.74%0 seats · -2.74 pts
Independent
1.15%0 seats · -1.15 pts
Bahujan Samaj Party
0.68%0 seats · -0.68 pts
[03]Strike rate — candidates who won
2024 · parties fielding 5 or more
Telugu Desam
94.12%16/17
Bharatiya Janta Party
50.0%3/6
Yuvajana Sramika Ryth…
16.0%4/25
Indian National Congr…
0.0%0/23
Independent
0.0%0/187
Bahujan Samaj Party
0.0%0/25
Navarang Congress Par…
0.0%0/10
Jatiya Jana Sena Party
0.0%0/7
Jai Bharat National P…
0.0%0/9
Bharatha Chaitanya Yu…
0.0%0/7
[04]Deposits lost
Candidates under a sixth of the valid vote · newest first
2024
88.99%404 of 454
2019
83.39%266 of 319
2014
85.56%308 of 360
2009
82.25%468 of 569
2004
69.53%194 of 279
1999
69.12%197 of 285
1998
73.85%288 of 390
1996
93.57%1,368 of 1,462
1991
85.22%519 of 609
1989
68.17%182 of 267
[05]How crowded the ballot got
Candidates per seat · newest first
2024
18.2454 candidates
2019
12.8319 candidates
2014
13.9360 candidates
2009
13.6569 candidates
2004
6.6279 candidates
1999
6.8285 candidates
1998
9.3390 candidates
1996
34.81,462 candidates
1991
14.5609 candidates
1989
6.4267 candidates
[06]Independents
Candidates standing without a party · newest first
2024
1870 won
2019
990 won
2014
1520 won
2009
2240 won
2004
1140 won
1999
1020 won
1998
2070 won
1996
1,2250 won
1991
4030 won
1989
1400 won
[07]Computed insights
Arithmetic over the table above, not commentary
Telugu Desam took 64.0% of the seats on 38.33% of the votes — a seat bonus of +25.67 pts.
seat share 64.0 - vote share 38.33
Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party went the other way: 39.96% of votes returned only 16.0% of seats.
seat share 16.0 - vote share 39.96
88.99% of candidates lost their deposit in 2024 — 404 of 454 polled under a sixth of the valid vote.
404/454 below the one-sixth threshold
187 independents stood and 0 won — a strike rate of 0.0%.