What a vote was worth
Puducherry, 2024. 26 candidates from 8 parties contested 1 seats; 1 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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Indian National Congress took 100.0% of the seats on 53.37% of the votes — a seat bonus of +46.63 pts.
seat share 100.0 - vote share 53.37 -
Bharatiya Janta Party went the other way: 36.27% of votes returned only 0.0% of seats.
seat share 0.0 - vote share 36.27 -
92.31% of candidates lost their deposit in 2024 — 24 of 26 polled under a sixth of the valid vote.
24/26 below the one-sixth threshold -
19 independents stood and 0 won — a strike rate of 0.0%.
0/19 independents -
The field has grown more concentrated since 1967: the effective number of parties moved from 2.9 to 2.4.
Laakso-Taagepera 1/sum(share^2), 1967 vs 2024