bulbul Posted April 10, 2014 Author Posted April 10, 2014 Chhindwara, in Madhya Pradesh, is the only constituency to have voted for the Congress every election for the last 15 elections. Only 8 constituencies have voted for BJP every time since 1989. 5 are in Madhya Pradesh, 2 in Gujarat, and 1 in Rajasthan. Bara Banki, in Uttar Pradesh, has voted against the incumbent party in every single election since its inception in 1957. Arif Ahmed Shaikh Jafhar (NBNP) contested the 2009 elections from Dhhule, MH at age 99, making him the oldest candidate ever in India.
bulbul Posted April 10, 2014 Author Posted April 10, 2014 Candidate need to get more than 1/6th of the total no.of valid votes polled by all the candidates at the election to get the deposit back
coffee_rules Posted April 11, 2014 Posted April 11, 2014 pls post voter turnouts in each phase/state. thx.
bulbul Posted April 11, 2014 Author Posted April 11, 2014 pls post voter turnouts in each phase/state. thx. Will try to add tomorrow..bit complicated i guess.
bulbul Posted April 11, 2014 Author Posted April 11, 2014 In 2009 General Elections 84.6 percent contestants failed to get a minimum of one-sixth of the total valid votes polled, hence lost their security deposits. Out of 8070 contestants in the fray 6829 could not save their deposits. Percentage-wise, about 48 % of the seven national parties (BJP, BSP, CPI, CPM, INC, NCP and RJD), 20.3% of the state parties, 97.38% of unrecognized registered parties and 99.34 % of the independent aspirants lost their security money during the 2009 General Elections. In 2009 General Elections, there were 114 constituencies having victory margin less than three percent. Uttar Pradesh topping the list with 19 such constituencies. The least victory margin was in Tonk-Sawai Madhopur constituency, Rajasthan, where winning candidate bagged the seat with .039% margin In 2009 Lok Sabha Elections, there were twenty nine winning candidates who got less than 30% of votes polled. State wise, Uttar Pradesh had 14 such winners whereas Jharkhand had 6 candidates winning with less than 30% of votes polled in their respective constituencies. Bihar had five such winners. Other states with successful candidates getting less than 30% votes include Madhya Pradesh (2), Jammu and Kashmir (1) and Haryana (1). RJD won Buxar Lok Sabha seat in Bihar getting 21.27% of total votes polled for its candidate, which was the lowest percentage of votes bagged by any winner. Nawada, another Lok Sabha seat from Bihar had the winner getting 22.46% of votes polled. Moving to the neighbouring state Jharkhand, Chatra had winning candidate with 22.86% votes, Godda with 23.76% votes and Kodarma with 25.55% votes.
Haarkarjeetgaye Posted April 14, 2014 Posted April 14, 2014 Do you have any website which lists state wise constituencies and which parties are contesting and also the candidates? Any website ( or sheet) which allows you to predict, just like a game of prediction
Sachin=GOD Posted April 14, 2014 Posted April 14, 2014 Do you have any website which lists state wise constituencies and which parties are contesting and also the candidates? Any website ( or sheet) which allows you to predict, just like a game of prediction I think State wise constituencies and candidates etc will be there on election commission website.
bulbul Posted April 14, 2014 Author Posted April 14, 2014 Do you have any website which lists state wise constituencies and which parties are contesting and also the candidates? Any website ( or sheet) which allows you to predict, just like a game of prediction Prediction , i don't know But to get more stats, CNN IBN - Micro soft Election Analytics center & EC sites are good places http://ibnlive.in.com/general-elections-2014/analytics/
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