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Analysis · votes into seats

What a vote was worth

Manipur, 2024. 10 candidates from 5 parties contested 2 seats; 1 parties won at least one.

Parties contesting
5
2024 · 1 of them won a seat
Largest party
2seats
Indian National Congress · 47.96% of votes
Deposits lost
50.0%
5 of 10 candidates
Effective parties
3.3
By vote share · lower means more dominant
Candidates per seat
5.0
10 for 2 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.

Indian National Congr… 47.96%2 seats · +52.04 pts
Naga Peoples Front 18.93%0 seats · -18.93 pts
Bharatiya Janta Party 16.7%0 seats · -16.7 pts
Republican Party of I… 8.57%0 seats · -8.57 pts
Independent 7.85%0 seats · -7.85 pts

[03]Strike rate — candidates who won

2024 · parties fielding 5 or more
Independent 0.0%0/5

[04]Deposits lost

Candidates under a sixth of the valid vote · newest first
2024 50.0%5 of 10
2019 68.42%13 of 19
2014 77.78%14 of 18
2009 68.75%11 of 16
2004 50.0%6 of 12
1999 72.22%13 of 18
1998 60.0%9 of 15
1996 85.71%24 of 28
1991 75.0%15 of 20
1989 61.54%8 of 13

[05]How crowded the ballot got

Candidates per seat · newest first
2024 5.010 candidates
2019 9.519 candidates
2014 9.018 candidates
2009 8.016 candidates
2004 6.012 candidates
1999 9.018 candidates
1998 7.515 candidates
1996 14.028 candidates
1991 10.020 candidates
1989 6.513 candidates

[06]Independents

Candidates standing without a party · newest first
2024 50 won
2019 50 won
2014 40 won
2009 50 won
2004 31 won
1999 40 won
1998 30 won
1996 130 won
1991 90 won
1989 30 won

[07]Computed insights

Arithmetic over the table above, not commentary

  1. Indian National Congress took 100.0% of the seats on 47.96% of the votes — a seat bonus of +52.04 pts.

    seat share 100.0 - vote share 47.96

  2. Naga Peoples Front went the other way: 18.93% of votes returned only 0.0% of seats.

    seat share 0.0 - vote share 18.93

  3. 50.0% of candidates lost their deposit in 2024 — 5 of 10 polled under a sixth of the valid vote.

    5/10 below the one-sixth threshold

  4. 5 independents stood and 0 won — a strike rate of 0.0%.

    0/5 independents

  5. The field has grown more concentrated since 1952: the effective number of parties moved from 6.6 to 3.3.

    Laakso-Taagepera 1/sum(share^2), 1952 vs 2024
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