Haryana, 2024. 1,031 candidates from 61 parties contested 90 seats; 4 parties won at least one.
Parties contesting
61
2024 · 4 of them won a seat
Largest party
48seats
Bharatiya Janta Party · 40.1% of votes
Deposits lost
80.31%
828 of 1,031 candidates
Effective parties
3.1
By vote share · lower means more dominant
Candidates per seat
11.5
1,031 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.
Bharatiya Janta Party
40.1%48 seats · +13.24 pts
Indian National Congr…
39.24%37 seats · +1.87 pts
Independent
10.47%3 seats · -7.14 pts
Indian National Lok D…
4.16%2 seats · -1.94 pts
Bahujan Samaj Party
1.83%0 seats · -1.83 pts
Aam Aadmi Party
1.8%0 seats · -1.8 pts
Jannayak Janta Party
0.9%0 seats · -0.9 pts
Haryana Lokhit Party
0.52%0 seats · -0.52 pts
[03]Strike rate — candidates who won
2024 · parties fielding 5 or more
Bharatiya Janta Party
53.93%48/89
Indian National Congr…
41.57%37/89
Indian National Lok D…
3.92%2/51
Independent
0.65%3/464
Bahujan Samaj Party
0.0%0/35
Aam Aadmi Party
0.0%0/88
Jannayak Janta Party
0.0%0/66
Aazad Samaj Party (ka…
0.0%0/12
Socialist Unity Centr…
0.0%0/8
Rashtrawadi Janlok Pa…
0.0%0/7
[04]Deposits lost
Candidates under a sixth of the valid vote · newest first
2024
80.31%828 of 1,031
2019
81.95%958 of 1,169
2014
83.05%1,122 of 1,351
2009
82.57%1,009 of 1,222
2005
78.23%769 of 983
2000
77.82%751 of 965
1996
91.26%2,380 of 2,608
1991
88.28%1,664 of 1,885
1987
85.1%1,125 of 1,322
1982
81.37%891 of 1,095
[05]How crowded the ballot got
Candidates per seat · newest first
2024
11.51,031 candidates
2019
13.01,169 candidates
2014
15.01,351 candidates
2009
13.61,222 candidates
2005
10.9983 candidates
2000
10.7965 candidates
1996
29.02,608 candidates
1991
20.91,885 candidates
1987
14.71,322 candidates
1982
12.21,095 candidates
[06]Independents
Candidates standing without a party · newest first
2024
4643 won
2019
3777 won
2014
6035 won
2009
5137 won
2005
44210 won
2000
51911 won
1996
2,02210 won
1991
1,4125 won
1987
1,0457 won
1982
83516 won
[07]Computed insights
Arithmetic over the table above, not commentary
Bharatiya Janta Party took 53.33% of the seats on 40.1% of the votes — a seat bonus of +13.24 pts.
seat share 53.33 - vote share 40.1
Independent went the other way: 10.47% of votes returned only 3.33% of seats.
seat share 3.33 - vote share 10.47
80.31% of candidates lost their deposit in 2024 — 828 of 1,031 polled under a sixth of the valid vote.
828/1031 below the one-sixth threshold
464 independents stood and 3 won — a strike rate of 0.65%.