Analysis · side by side

The states, ranked

Lok Sabha 2019. 36 states and union territories, 543 seats, ranked side by side.

States compared

2019 · 543 seats in total

Highest turnout

85.18%

Lakshadweep

Lowest turnout

44.84%

Jammu and Kashmir

Closest contests

0.68%

Andaman and Nicobar Islands · median margin

Most crowded ballot

36.0

Chandigarh · candidates per seat

[01]Turnout

Votes as a share of electors · 2019

Lakshadweep 85.18%1 seats

Nagaland 82.91%1 seats

Manipur 82.54%2 seats

Tripura 82.35%2 seats

West Bengal 81.72%42 seats

Assam 81.57%14 seats

Puducherry 81.24%1 seats

Arunachal Pradesh 81.15%2 seats

Sikkim 81.02%1 seats

Andhra Pradesh 80.21%25 seats

Dadra and Nagar Haveli 79.58%1 seats

Kerala 77.79%20 seats

Goa 75.1%2 seats

Odisha 73.21%21 seats

[02]How close the contests were

Median winning margin · closest first

Andaman and Nicobar I… 0.68%1 seats

Mizoram 1.6%1 seats

Nagaland 1.6%1 seats

Lakshadweep 1.75%1 seats

Sikkim 3.5%1 seats

Odisha 3.6%21 seats

Dadra and Nagar Haveli 4.52%1 seats

Manipur 5.45%2 seats

Chhattisgarh 7.4%11 seats

Telangana 7.8%17 seats

West Bengal 7.85%42 seats

Punjab 8.5%13 seats

Kerala 9.45%20 seats

Chandigarh 10.29%1 seats

[03]NOTA

None of the above, as a share of votes cast

Bihar 2.0%8,17,139 votes

Daman and Diu 1.7%1,487 votes

Puducherry 1.54%12,199 votes

Andhra Pradesh 1.48%4,68,781 votes

Dadra and Nagar Haveli 1.48%2,950 votes

Goa 1.47%12,499 votes

Chhattisgarh 1.44%1,96,265 votes

Gujarat 1.38%4,00,941 votes

Odisha 1.31%3,10,824 votes

Jharkhand 1.27%1,89,367 votes

Tamil Nadu 1.25%5,41,150 votes

Arunachal Pradesh 1.15%7,464 votes

Punjab 1.12%1,54,423 votes

Tripura 1.08%23,174 votes

[04]Candidates per seat

How crowded the ballot paper was

Chandigarh 36.036 candidates

Telangana 26.1443 candidates

Delhi 23.4164 candidates

Haryana 22.3223 candidates

Tamil Nadu 21.8850 candidates

Punjab 21.4278 candidates

Maharashtra 18.1867 candidates

Puducherry 18.018 candidates

Karnataka 17.1478 candidates

Jharkhand 16.4229 candidates

Bihar 15.7626 candidates

Madhya Pradesh 15.1438 candidates

Chhattisgarh 15.1166 candidates

Andaman and Nicobar I… 15.015 candidates

[05]Party fragmentation

Effective number of parties by vote share · most fragmented first

Bihar 6.64 of 117 parties won

Tamil Nadu 5.67 of 65 parties won

Maharashtra 5.26 of 95 parties won

Kerala 4.35 of 25 parties won

Manipur 4.22 of 12 parties won

Punjab 3.84 of 54 parties won

Assam 3.54 of 28 parties won

Telangana 3.34 of 45 parties won

Jharkhand 3.24 of 56 parties won

Jammu and Kashmir 3.22 of 20 parties won

Uttar Pradesh 3.15 of 199 parties won

Meghalaya 3.02 of 5 parties won

Tripura 2.91 of 10 parties won

Daman and Diu 2.91 of 4 parties won

[06]Deposits lost

Candidates under a sixth of the valid vote

Chandigarh 94.44%34 of 36

Telangana 91.2%404 of 443

Tamil Nadu 91.06%774 of 850

Haryana 91.03%203 of 223

Delhi 89.63%147 of 164

Punjab 89.21%248 of 278

Puducherry 88.89%16 of 18

Maharashtra 88.58%768 of 867

Karnataka 88.29%422 of 478

Jharkhand 88.21%202 of 229

Bihar 87.22%546 of 626

Madhya Pradesh 86.76%380 of 438

Chhattisgarh 86.75%144 of 166

Andaman and Nicobar I… 86.67%13 of 15

[07]Computed insights

Arithmetic over the table above, not commentary

Turnout ranged from 85.18% in Lakshadweep to 44.84% in Jammu and Kashmir — a spread of 40.34 points.
85.18 - 44.84 across 36 states
Andaman and Nicobar Islands was the hardest fought: its middle seat was won by 0.68%, against 41.75% in Himachal Pradesh.
median winning margin, 1 seats against 4
Chandigarh had the most crowded ballot at 36.0 candidates a seat, and 94.44% of them lost their deposit.
36 candidates over 1 seats
NOTA was highest in Bihar at 2.0% — 8,17,139 voters rejected every candidate on the paper.
817,139 NOTA votes over 40 seats
16 states and UTs returned a clean sweep — every seat went to a single party.
16 of 36 scopes with PartiesWon = 1