What a vote was worth
Himachal Pradesh, 2024. 37 candidates from 10 parties contested 4 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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Bharatiya Janta Party took 100.0% of the seats on 56.75% of the votes — a seat bonus of +43.25 pts.
seat share 100.0 - vote share 56.75 -
Indian National Congress went the other way: 41.91% of votes returned only 0.0% of seats.
seat share 0.0 - vote share 41.91 -
78.38% of candidates lost their deposit in 2024 — 29 of 37 polled under a sixth of the valid vote.
29/37 below the one-sixth threshold -
12 independents stood and 0 won — a strike rate of 0.0%.
0/12 independents -
The field has grown more concentrated since 1957: the effective number of parties moved from 3.0 to 2.0.
Laakso-Taagepera 1/sum(share^2), 1957 vs 2024