Analysis · side by side

The states, ranked

Lok Sabha 1977. 31 states and union territories, 542 seats, ranked side by side.

States compared

1977 · 542 seats in total

Highest turnout

84.16%

Lakshadweep

Lowest turnout

24.47%

Arunachal Pradesh

Closest contests

3.05%

Tripura · median margin

Most crowded ballot

10.0

Chandigarh · candidates per seat

[01]Turnout

Votes as a share of electors · 1977

Lakshadweep 84.16%1 seats

Kerala 79.2%20 seats

Puducherry 73.63%1 seats

Haryana 73.26%10 seats

Delhi 71.31%7 seats

Andaman and Nicobar I… 71.0%1 seats

Punjab 70.14%13 seats

Tripura 70.07%2 seats

Tamil Nadu 67.14%39 seats

Chandigarh 66.53%1 seats

Dadra and Nagar Haveli 64.29%1 seats

Karnataka 63.2%28 seats

Daman and Diu 62.8%2 seats

Andhra Pradesh 60.6%42 seats

[02]How close the contests were

Median winning margin · closest first

Tripura 3.05%2 seats

Nagaland 3.2%1 seats

Daman and Diu 6.8%2 seats

Puducherry 8.7%1 seats

Kerala 9.55%20 seats

Gujarat 9.85%26 seats

Meghalaya 10.7%2 seats

Assam 12.55%14 seats

Jammu and Kashmir 13.05%6 seats

Himachal Pradesh 14.45%4 seats

Arunachal Pradesh 14.5%2 seats

Maharashtra 15.1%48 seats

Dadra and Nagar Haveli 15.11%1 seats

Mizoram 15.7%1 seats

[04]Candidates per seat

How crowded the ballot paper was

Chandigarh 10.010 candidates

Daman and Diu 7.515 candidates

Bihar 6.3340 candidates

Punjab 6.179 candidates

Delhi 5.941 candidates

Manipur 5.511 candidates

Uttar Pradesh 5.2443 candidates

Tamil Nadu 5.0195 candidates

Haryana 5.050 candidates

Jammu and Kashmir 4.829 candidates

Maharashtra 4.4211 candidates

Gujarat 4.3112 candidates

Rajasthan 4.1102 candidates

West Bengal 4.1171 candidates

[05]Party fragmentation

Effective number of parties by vote share · most fragmented first

Kerala 6.25 of 11 parties won

Tamil Nadu 4.75 of 8 parties won

West Bengal 4.76 of 10 parties won

Manipur 3.41 of 5 parties won

Tripura 3.22 of 5 parties won

Punjab 3.13 of 9 parties won

Jammu and Kashmir 3.13 of 4 parties won

Maharashtra 3.05 of 8 parties won

Daman and Diu 2.92 of 4 parties won

Dadra and Nagar Haveli 2.71 of 3 parties won

Assam 2.63 of 7 parties won

Odisha 2.44 of 7 parties won

Andhra Pradesh 2.32 of 8 parties won

Madhya Pradesh 2.24 of 5 parties won

[06]Deposits lost

Candidates under a sixth of the valid vote

Chandigarh 80.0%8 of 10

Daman and Diu 73.33%11 of 15

Manipur 72.73%8 of 11

Bihar 70.29%239 of 340

Punjab 68.35%54 of 79

Haryana 66.0%33 of 50

Delhi 65.85%27 of 41

Uttar Pradesh 61.4%272 of 443

Tamil Nadu 60.0%117 of 195

Jammu and Kashmir 58.62%17 of 29

Gujarat 53.57%60 of 112

Maharashtra 53.56%113 of 211

Rajasthan 50.98%52 of 102

Mizoram 50.0%2 of 4

[07]Computed insights

Arithmetic over the table above, not commentary

Turnout ranged from 84.16% in Lakshadweep to 24.47% in Arunachal Pradesh — a spread of 59.69 points.
84.16 - 24.47 across 30 states
Tripura was the hardest fought: its middle seat was won by 3.05%, against 50.35% in Haryana.
median winning margin, 2 seats against 10
Chandigarh had the most crowded ballot at 10.0 candidates a seat, and 80.0% of them lost their deposit.
10 candidates over 1 seats
13 states and UTs returned a clean sweep — every seat went to a single party.
13 of 31 scopes with PartiesWon = 1