What a vote was worth
Goa, 2024. 16 candidates from 7 parties contested 2 seats; 2 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 50.0% of the seats on 40.11% of the votes — a seat bonus of +9.89 pts.
seat share 50.0 - vote share 40.11 -
Revolutionary Goans Party went the other way: 7.21% of votes returned only 0.0% of seats.
seat share 0.0 - vote share 7.21 -
75.0% of candidates lost their deposit in 2024 — 12 of 16 polled under a sixth of the valid vote.
12/16 below the one-sixth threshold -
6 independents stood and 0 won — a strike rate of 0.0%.
0/6 independents -
The field has grown more concentrated since 1989: the effective number of parties moved from 3.0 to 2.3.
Laakso-Taagepera 1/sum(share^2), 1989 vs 2024