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Analysis · votes into seats

What a vote was worth

Delhi, 2024. 161 candidates from 61 parties contested 7 seats; 1 parties won at least one.

Parties contesting
61
2024 · 1 of them won a seat
Largest party
7seats
Bharatiya Janta Party · 54.67% of votes
Deposits lost
91.3%
147 of 161 candidates
Effective parties
2.5
By vote share · lower means more dominant
Candidates per seat
23.0
161 for 7 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 54.67%7 seats · +45.34 pts
Aam Aadmi Party 24.27%0 seats · -24.27 pts
Indian National Congr… 18.99%0 seats · -18.99 pts
Bahujan Samaj Party 0.7%0 seats · -0.7 pts

[03]Strike rate — candidates who won

2024 · parties fielding 5 or more
Bharatiya Janta Party 100.0%7/7
Bahujan Samaj Party 0.0%0/7
Independent 0.0%0/49
Navarang Congress Par… 0.0%0/7
Peoples Party of Indi… 0.0%0/6

[04]Deposits lost

Candidates under a sixth of the valid vote · newest first
2024 91.3%147 of 161
2019 89.63%147 of 164
2014 88.67%133 of 150
2009 91.25%146 of 160
2004 89.15%115 of 129
1999 84.54%82 of 97
1998 88.64%117 of 132
1996 97.32%509 of 523
1991 96.81%486 of 502
1989 93.67%222 of 237

[05]How crowded the ballot got

Candidates per seat · newest first
2024 23.0161 candidates
2019 23.4164 candidates
2014 21.4150 candidates
2009 22.9160 candidates
2004 18.4129 candidates
1999 13.997 candidates
1998 18.9132 candidates
1996 74.7523 candidates
1991 71.7502 candidates
1989 33.9237 candidates

[06]Independents

Candidates standing without a party · newest first
2024 490 won
2019 430 won
2014 580 won
2009 720 won
2004 700 won
1999 520 won
1998 590 won
1996 3780 won
1991 3990 won
1989 1790 won

[07]Computed insights

Arithmetic over the table above, not commentary

  1. Bharatiya Janta Party took 100.0% of the seats on 54.67% of the votes — a seat bonus of +45.34 pts.

    seat share 100.0 - vote share 54.67

  2. Aam Aadmi Party went the other way: 24.27% of votes returned only 0.0% of seats.

    seat share 0.0 - vote share 24.27

  3. 91.3% of candidates lost their deposit in 2024 — 147 of 161 polled under a sixth of the valid vote.

    147/161 below the one-sixth threshold

  4. 49 independents stood and 0 won — a strike rate of 0.0%.

    0/49 independents
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