What a vote was worth
Nagaland, 2024. 3 candidates from 3 parties contested 1 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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Indian National Congress took 100.0% of the seats on 52.95% of the votes — a seat bonus of +47.05 pts.
seat share 100.0 - vote share 52.95 -
Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party went the other way: 46.23% of votes returned only 0.0% of seats.
seat share 0.0 - vote share 46.23 -
33.33% of candidates lost their deposit in 2024 — 1 of 3 polled under a sixth of the valid vote.
1/3 below the one-sixth threshold -
1 independents stood and 0 won — a strike rate of 0.0%.
0/1 independents