Analysis · side by side

The states, ranked

Lok Sabha 2024. 37 states and union territories, 543 seats, ranked side by side.

States compared

2024 · 543 seats in total

Highest turnout

82.93%

Sikkim

Lowest turnout

56.36%

Bihar

Closest contests

0.56%

Chandigarh · median margin

Most crowded ballot

30.9

Telangana · candidates per seat

[01]Turnout

Votes as a share of electors · 2024

Sikkim 82.93%1 seats

Tripura 81.96%2 seats

Assam 81.86%14 seats

Andhra Pradesh 81.6%25 seats

Arunachal Pradesh 81.02%2 seats

West Bengal 79.57%42 seats

Puducherry 78.92%1 seats

Manipur 78.52%2 seats

Meghalaya 76.89%2 seats

Goa 76.87%2 seats

Odisha 74.64%21 seats

Chhattisgarh 72.91%11 seats

Himachal Pradesh 72.09%4 seats

Kerala 72.0%20 seats

[02]How close the contests were

Median winning margin · closest first

Chandigarh 0.56%1 seats

Punjab 4.4%13 seats

Haryana 5.05%10 seats

Lakshadweep 5.38%1 seats

Chhattisgarh 5.5%11 seats

Uttar Pradesh 6.15%80 seats

Nagaland 6.7%1 seats

Daman and Diu 6.72%1 seats

Maharashtra 7.9%48 seats

West Bengal 8.0%42 seats

Karnataka 8.25%28 seats

Rajasthan 8.4%25 seats

Odisha 8.7%21 seats

Delhi 9.2%7 seats

[03]NOTA

None of the above, as a share of votes cast

Bihar 2.07%8,99,616 votes

Gujarat 1.58%4,60,341 votes

Madhya Pradesh 1.41%5,33,705 votes

Tripura 1.4%32,915 votes

Odisha 1.3%3,25,483 votes

Goa 1.23%11,165 votes

Puducherry 1.21%9,763 votes

Assam 1.2%2,40,301 votes

Andhra Pradesh 1.19%4,02,366 votes

Jharkhand 1.13%1,95,472 votes

Uttarakhand 1.1%53,103 votes

Tamil Nadu 1.07%4,67,068 votes

Arunachal Pradesh 0.99%7,191 votes

Meghalaya 0.98%16,848 votes

[04]Candidates per seat

How crowded the ballot paper was

Telangana 30.9525 candidates

Puducherry 26.026 candidates

Punjab 25.2328 candidates

Tamil Nadu 24.2944 candidates

Maharashtra 23.41,121 candidates

Delhi 23.0161 candidates

Haryana 22.2222 candidates

Chhattisgarh 20.0220 candidates

Jammu and Kashmir 20.0100 candidates

Chandigarh 19.019 candidates

Andhra Pradesh 18.2454 candidates

Jharkhand 17.4244 candidates

Karnataka 16.9474 candidates

Sikkim 14.014 candidates

[05]Party fragmentation

Effective number of parties by vote share · most fragmented first

Bihar 6.68 of 96 parties won

Tamil Nadu 6.57 of 68 parties won

Maharashtra 6.37 of 122 parties won

Jammu and Kashmir 5.53 of 21 parties won

Punjab 5.04 of 49 parties won

Kerala 4.36 of 21 parties won

Jharkhand 3.74 of 49 parties won

Sikkim 3.51 of 7 parties won

Meghalaya 3.42 of 6 parties won

Assam 3.44 of 27 parties won

Uttar Pradesh 3.36 of 165 parties won

Manipur 3.31 of 5 parties won

Mizoram 3.21 of 6 parties won

Telangana 3.23 of 68 parties won

[06]Deposits lost

Candidates under a sixth of the valid vote

Puducherry 92.31%24 of 26

Telangana 92.19%484 of 525

Delhi 91.3%147 of 161

Haryana 90.99%202 of 222

Maharashtra 90.99%1,020 of 1,121

Tamil Nadu 90.78%857 of 944

Chhattisgarh 90.0%198 of 220

Chandigarh 89.47%17 of 19

Jammu and Kashmir 89.0%89 of 100

Andhra Pradesh 88.99%404 of 454

Karnataka 88.19%418 of 474

Jharkhand 88.12%215 of 244

Punjab 88.11%289 of 328

Madhya Pradesh 84.15%308 of 366

[07]Computed insights

Arithmetic over the table above, not commentary

Turnout ranged from 82.93% in Sikkim to 56.36% in Bihar — a spread of 26.57 points.
82.93 - 56.36 across 31 states
Chandigarh was the hardest fought: its middle seat was won by 0.56%, against 46.75% in Tripura.
median winning margin, 1 seats against 2
Telangana had the most crowded ballot at 30.9 candidates a seat, and 92.19% of them lost their deposit.
525 candidates over 17 seats
NOTA was highest in Bihar at 2.07% — 8,99,616 voters rejected every candidate on the paper.
899,616 NOTA votes over 40 seats
17 states and UTs returned a clean sweep — every seat went to a single party.
17 of 37 scopes with PartiesWon = 1