Uttar Pradesh, 2024. 850 candidates from 165 parties contested 80 seats; 6 parties won at least one.
Parties contesting
165
2024 · 6 of them won a seat
Largest party
37seats
Samajwadi Party · 33.84% of votes
Deposits lost
80.0%
680 of 850 candidates
Effective parties
3.3
By vote share · lower means more dominant
Candidates per seat
10.6
850 for 80 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.
Samajwadi Party
33.84%37 seats · +12.41 pts
Bharatiya Janta Party
41.67%33 seats · -0.42 pts
Indian National Congr…
9.53%6 seats · -2.03 pts
Rashtriya Lok Dal
1.02%2 seats · +1.48 pts
Apna Dal (soneylal)
0.93%1 seat · +0.32 pts
Aazad Samaj Party (ka…
0.69%1 seat · +0.56 pts
Bahujan Samaj Party
9.46%0 seats · -9.46 pts
Independent
0.85%0 seats · -0.85 pts
[03]Strike rate — candidates who won
2024 · parties fielding 5 or more
Samajwadi Party
59.68%37/62
Bharatiya Janta Party
44.0%33/75
Indian National Congr…
35.29%6/17
Bahujan Samaj Party
0.0%0/79
Independent
0.0%0/278
Communist Party of In…
0.0%0/6
Rashtriya Shoshit Sam…
0.0%0/9
Sardar Patel Siddhant…
0.0%0/23
Apna Dal (kamerawadi)
0.0%0/11
Peace Party
0.0%0/8
[04]Deposits lost
Candidates under a sixth of the valid vote · newest first
2024
80.0%680 of 850
2019
83.66%819 of 979
2014
84.39%1,087 of 1,288
2009
84.28%1,153 of 1,368
2004
79.7%907 of 1,138
1999
79.72%963 of 1,208
1998
77.82%807 of 1,037
1996
92.87%3,062 of 3,297
1991
86.79%1,393 of 1,605
1989
81.42%885 of 1,087
[05]How crowded the ballot got
Candidates per seat · newest first
2024
10.6850 candidates
2019
12.2979 candidates
2014
16.11,288 candidates
2009
17.11,368 candidates
2004
14.21,138 candidates
1999
14.21,208 candidates
1998
12.21,037 candidates
1996
38.83,297 candidates
1991
19.11,605 candidates
1989
12.81,087 candidates
[06]Independents
Candidates standing without a party · newest first
2024
2780 won
2019
2640 won
2014
3730 won
2009
5631 won
2004
4811 won
1999
6101 won
1998
4911 won
1996
2,5691 won
1991
1,0160 won
1989
6222 won
[07]Computed insights
Arithmetic over the table above, not commentary
Samajwadi Party took 46.25% of the seats on 33.84% of the votes — a seat bonus of +12.41 pts.
seat share 46.25 - vote share 33.84
Bahujan Samaj Party went the other way: 9.46% of votes returned only 0.0% of seats.
seat share 0.0 - vote share 9.46
80.0% of candidates lost their deposit in 2024 — 680 of 850 polled under a sixth of the valid vote.
680/850 below the one-sixth threshold
278 independents stood and 0 won — a strike rate of 0.0%.
0/278 independents
The field has grown more concentrated since 1962: the effective number of parties moved from 4.7 to 3.3.