Jammu and Kashmir, 2024. 873 candidates from 46 parties contested 90 seats; 8 parties won at least one.
Parties contesting
46
2024 · 8 of them won a seat
Largest party
42seats
Jammu & Kashmir National Conference · 23.78% of votes
Deposits lost
78.01%
681 of 873 candidates
Effective parties
5.6
By vote share · lower means more dominant
Candidates per seat
9.7
873 for 90 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.
Jammu & Kashmir Natio…
23.78%42 seats · +22.88 pts
Bharatiya Janta Party
26.03%29 seats · +6.19 pts
Independent
16.89%7 seats · -9.11 pts
Indian National Congr…
12.15%6 seats · -5.49 pts
Jammu & Kashmir Peopl…
9.01%3 seats · -5.67 pts
Jammu & Kashmir Peopl…
2.52%1 seat · -1.41 pts
Communist Party of In…
0.6%1 seat · +0.51 pts
Aam Aadmi Party
0.53%1 seat · +0.58 pts
Jammu and Kashmir Apn…
3.42%0 seats · -3.42 pts
Democratic Progressiv…
1.22%0 seats · -1.22 pts
J&k National Panthers…
1.18%0 seats · -1.18 pts
Bahujan Samaj Party
0.98%0 seats · -0.98 pts
Jammu and Kashmir Peo…
0.52%0 seats · -0.52 pts
[03]Strike rate — candidates who won
2024 · parties fielding 5 or more
Jammu & Kashmir Natio…
75.0%42/56
Bharatiya Janta Party
46.77%29/62
Indian National Congr…
15.39%6/39
Aam Aadmi Party
14.29%1/7
Jammu & Kashmir Peopl…
5.0%1/20
Jammu & Kashmir Peopl…
3.75%3/80
Independent
2.02%7/346
Jammu and Kashmir Apn…
0.0%0/46
Democratic Progressiv…
0.0%0/23
Bahujan Samaj Party
0.0%0/28
[04]Deposits lost
Candidates under a sixth of the valid vote · newest first
2024
78.01%681 of 873
2014
75.45%627 of 831
2008
85.75%1,161 of 1,354
2002
72.07%511 of 709
1996
65.27%357 of 547
1987
70.46%372 of 528
1983
69.73%357 of 512
1977
62.59%256 of 409
1972
58.48%200 of 342
1967
35.92%74 of 206
[05]How crowded the ballot got
Candidates per seat · newest first
2024
9.7873 candidates
2014
9.6831 candidates
2008
15.61,354 candidates
2002
8.2709 candidates
1996
6.3547 candidates
1987
7.0528 candidates
1983
6.8512 candidates
1977
5.4409 candidates
1972
4.6342 candidates
1967
2.8206 candidates
[06]Independents
Candidates standing without a party · newest first
2024
3467 won
2014
2743 won
2008
5174 won
2002
24413 won
1996
1342 won
1987
3448 won
1983
2543 won
1977
1744 won
1972
1979 won
1967
383 won
[07]Computed insights
Arithmetic over the table above, not commentary
Jammu & Kashmir National Conference took 46.67% of the seats on 23.78% of the votes — a seat bonus of +22.88 pts.
seat share 46.67 - vote share 23.78
Independent went the other way: 16.89% of votes returned only 7.78% of seats.
seat share 7.78 - vote share 16.89
78.01% of candidates lost their deposit in 2024 — 681 of 873 polled under a sixth of the valid vote.
681/873 below the one-sixth threshold
346 independents stood and 7 won — a strike rate of 2.02%.
7/346 independents
The field has grown more fragmented since 1962: the effective number of parties moved from 2.1 to 5.6.