Haryana, 2024. 222 candidates from 46 parties contested 10 seats; 2 parties won at least one.
Parties contesting
46
2024 · 2 of them won a seat
Largest party
5seats
Bharatiya Janta Party · 46.26% of votes
Deposits lost
90.99%
202 of 222 candidates
Effective parties
2.5
By vote share · lower means more dominant
Candidates per seat
22.2
222 for 10 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
46.26%5 seats · +3.74 pts
Indian National Congr…
43.83%5 seats · +6.17 pts
Aam Aadmi Party
3.94%0 seats · -3.94 pts
Indian National Lok D…
1.74%0 seats · -1.74 pts
Bahujan Samaj Party
1.28%0 seats · -1.28 pts
Independent
1.08%0 seats · -1.08 pts
Jannayak Janta Party
0.88%0 seats · -0.88 pts
[03]Strike rate — candidates who won
2024 · parties fielding 5 or more
Indian National Congr…
55.56%5/9
Bharatiya Janta Party
50.0%5/10
Indian National Lok D…
0.0%0/7
Bahujan Samaj Party
0.0%0/9
Independent
0.0%0/104
Jannayak Janta Party
0.0%0/10
Peoples Party of Indi…
0.0%0/10
Socialist Unity Centr…
0.0%0/6
Bharatiya Asha Party
0.0%0/5
[04]Deposits lost
Candidates under a sixth of the valid vote · newest first
2024
90.99%202 of 222
2019
91.03%203 of 223
2014
90.0%207 of 230
2009
87.62%184 of 210
2004
85.63%137 of 160
1999
81.58%93 of 114
1998
79.29%111 of 140
1996
91.16%268 of 294
1991
87.37%173 of 198
1989
93.83%304 of 324
[05]How crowded the ballot got
Candidates per seat · newest first
2024
22.2222 candidates
2019
22.3223 candidates
2014
23.0230 candidates
2009
21.0210 candidates
2004
16.0160 candidates
1999
11.4114 candidates
1998
14.0140 candidates
1996
29.4294 candidates
1991
19.8198 candidates
1989
32.4324 candidates
[06]Independents
Candidates standing without a party · newest first
2024
1040 won
2019
850 won
2014
1210 won
2009
1130 won
2004
760 won
1999
740 won
1998
780 won
1996
2101 won
1991
1350 won
1989
2710 won
[07]Computed insights
Arithmetic over the table above, not commentary
Indian National Congress took 50.0% of the seats on 43.83% of the votes — a seat bonus of +6.17 pts.
seat share 50.0 - vote share 43.83
Aam Aadmi Party went the other way: 3.94% of votes returned only 0.0% of seats.
seat share 0.0 - vote share 3.94
90.99% of candidates lost their deposit in 2024 — 202 of 222 polled under a sixth of the valid vote.
202/222 below the one-sixth threshold
104 independents stood and 0 won — a strike rate of 0.0%.
0/104 independents
The field has grown more concentrated since 1967: the effective number of parties moved from 3.6 to 2.5.