Goa, 2022. 300 candidates from 13 parties contested 40 seats; 7 parties won at least one.
Parties contesting
13
2022 · 7 of them won a seat
Largest party
20seats
Bharatiya Janta Party · 33.86% of votes
Deposits lost
68.0%
204 of 300 candidates
Effective parties
4.9
By vote share · lower means more dominant
Candidates per seat
7.5
300 for 40 declared seats
[02]Vote share against seat share
2022 · 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
33.86%20 seats · +16.14 pts
Indian National Congr…
23.84%11 seats · +3.66 pts
Independent
9.0%3 seats · -1.5 pts
Maharashtrawadi Goman…
7.73%2 seats · -2.73 pts
Aam Aadmi Party
6.88%2 seats · -1.88 pts
Revolutionary Goans P…
9.97%1 seat · -7.47 pts
Goa Forward Party
1.87%1 seat · +0.63 pts
All India Trinamool C…
5.29%0 seats · -5.29 pts
Nationalist Congress…
1.16%0 seats · -1.16 pts
[03]Strike rate — candidates who won
2022 · parties fielding 5 or more
Bharatiya Janta Party
50.0%20/40
Indian National Congr…
29.73%11/37
Maharashtrawadi Goman…
15.39%2/13
Aam Aadmi Party
5.13%2/39
Independent
4.48%3/67
Revolutionary Goans P…
2.63%1/38
All India Trinamool C…
0.0%0/26
Nationalist Congress…
0.0%0/13
Shiv Sena
0.0%0/11
Jai Maha Bharath Party
0.0%0/6
[04]Deposits lost
Candidates under a sixth of the valid vote · newest first
2022
68.0%204 of 300
2017
65.34%164 of 251
2012
59.07%127 of 215
2007
53.96%109 of 202
2002
55.19%117 of 212
1999
54.29%114 of 210
1994
69.78%217 of 311
1989
63.49%160 of 252
1984
70.25%170 of 242
1977
47.59%69 of 145
[05]How crowded the ballot got
Candidates per seat · newest first
2022
7.5300 candidates
2017
6.3251 candidates
2012
5.4215 candidates
2007
5.1202 candidates
2002
5.3212 candidates
1999
5.3210 candidates
1994
7.8311 candidates
1989
6.3252 candidates
1984
8.1242 candidates
1977
4.8145 candidates
[06]Independents
Candidates standing without a party · newest first
2022
673 won
2017
583 won
2012
725 won
2007
492 won
2002
481 won
1999
471 won
1994
1543 won
1989
1322 won
1984
1584 won
1977
572 won
[07]Computed insights
Arithmetic over the table above, not commentary
Bharatiya Janta Party took 50.0% of the seats on 33.86% of the votes — a seat bonus of +16.14 pts.
seat share 50.0 - vote share 33.86
Revolutionary Goans Party went the other way: 9.97% of votes returned only 2.5% of seats.
seat share 2.5 - vote share 9.97
68.0% of candidates lost their deposit in 2022 — 204 of 300 polled under a sixth of the valid vote.
204/300 below the one-sixth threshold
67 independents stood and 3 won — a strike rate of 4.48%.
3/67 independents
The field has grown more fragmented since 1967: the effective number of parties moved from 2.9 to 4.9.