The BJP — including its precursor Jan Sangh — had a low conversion ratio of votes into seats till 1\the 1984 LS polls. Its vote share was always higher than its seat share. In 1984, it got 7.4 ...
The first-past-the-post system of voting — where electors cast a vote for a single candidate, and the candidate with the most votes wins — can often lead to counterintuitive outcomes.
The first-past-the-post system of voting — where electors cast a vote for a single candidate, and the candidate with the most votes wins — can often lead to counterintuitive outcomes.
If the Congress reached 90, it would have a pretty good chance of holding the BJP below the 272 mark. A hundred seats will ...
The 2024 Lok Sabha election results have been rather shocking for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The party saw its national vote share fall 0.7 per cent from 37.3 per cent in 2019 to 36.6 per cent ...
The seat calculator is a rough way of converting percentage support for political parties into numbers of seats in parliament. It allows you to get an idea of what the next parliament might look like, ...
The Aam Aadmi Party appeared uncertain to win a single seat in the Uttar Pradesh polls as its vote share was less than NOTA on Thursday evening, with a senior party leader saying the 2022 ...
Its rival INDIA alliance, forged together by their common dislike for the BJP and its ideology, was leading in about 230 ...
The Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA), the Congress-Shiv Sena (Uddhav)-Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar) combine, made ...
Why did the BJP which was looking unbeatable under PM Modi stumble? Why did most exit polls get it wrong? Here’s a look at ...