Rajasthan, 2024. 266 candidates from 42 parties contested 25 seats; 5 parties won at least one.
Parties contesting
42
2024 · 5 of them won a seat
Largest party
14seats
Bharatiya Janta Party · 49.64% of votes
Deposits lost
80.83%
215 of 266 candidates
Effective parties
2.5
By vote share · lower means more dominant
Candidates per seat
10.6
266 for 25 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
49.64%14 seats · +6.36 pts
Indian National Congr…
38.25%8 seats · -6.25 pts
Bharat Adivasi Party
3.35%1 seat · +0.65 pts
Communist Party of In…
2.01%1 seat · +2.0 pts
Rashtriya Loktantrik…
1.82%1 seat · +2.19 pts
Independent
3.64%0 seats · -3.64 pts
Bahujan Samaj Party
0.74%0 seats · -0.74 pts
[03]Strike rate — candidates who won
2024 · parties fielding 5 or more
Bharatiya Janta Party
56.0%14/25
Indian National Congr…
34.78%8/23
Bharat Adivasi Party
16.67%1/6
Independent
0.0%0/122
Bahujan Samaj Party
0.0%0/24
Indian Peoples Green…
0.0%0/8
Aazad Samaj Party (ka…
0.0%0/5
Right To Recall Party
0.0%0/7
Bheem Tribal Congress
0.0%0/7
[04]Deposits lost
Candidates under a sixth of the valid vote · newest first
2024
80.83%215 of 266
2019
79.52%198 of 249
2014
83.13%266 of 320
2009
84.68%293 of 346
2004
72.43%134 of 185
1999
69.09%114 of 165
1998
75.8%166 of 219
1996
92.17%624 of 677
1991
89.73%472 of 526
1989
83.55%254 of 304
[05]How crowded the ballot got
Candidates per seat · newest first
2024
10.6266 candidates
2019
10.0249 candidates
2014
12.8320 candidates
2009
13.8346 candidates
2004
7.4185 candidates
1999
6.6165 candidates
1998
8.8219 candidates
1996
27.1677 candidates
1991
21.0526 candidates
1989
12.2304 candidates
[06]Independents
Candidates standing without a party · newest first
2024
1220 won
2019
1110 won
2014
1170 won
2009
1861 won
2004
690 won
1999
440 won
1998
501 won
1996
5270 won
1991
3800 won
1989
1990 won
[07]Computed insights
Arithmetic over the table above, not commentary
Bharatiya Janta Party took 56.0% of the seats on 49.64% of the votes — a seat bonus of +6.36 pts.
seat share 56.0 - vote share 49.64
Indian National Congress went the other way: 38.25% of votes returned only 32.0% of seats.
seat share 32.0 - vote share 38.25
80.83% of candidates lost their deposit in 2024 — 215 of 266 polled under a sixth of the valid vote.
215/266 below the one-sixth threshold
122 independents stood and 0 won — a strike rate of 0.0%.
0/122 independents
The field has grown more concentrated since 1952: the effective number of parties moved from 3.6 to 2.5.