India held a parliamentary election during April and May 2019. Different sections of the country vote on different days. Even though India does not use proportional representation, 37 parties won at least one seat in the lower house of Parliament, which has 543 seats. Here is the wikipedia article about that election.
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Edited By Richard Winger
India – another ex-Brit colony — with gerrymander districts
Lots of winners with under 50 pct in their rigged gerrymander districts.
Very UN-stable regime due to many factions / fractions.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-48366944
has gerrymander maps.
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PR and AppV — in ALL regimes.
Wow, 37 parties under a first-past-the-post voting system. The standard line is that it is proportional representation voting systems that would produce so many parties; not FPTP. But here we are. I can’t think of any country that uses proportional representation that has even close to 37 parties in its legislature. It is possible but highly unlikely as it would mean most parties got around 2.7 percent of the total vote (This assumes the entire country is treated as one district.) I don’t think a top-two style election would have produced far fewer parties either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_2019_Indian_general_election
Results only — in process
http://results.eci.gov.in/pc/en/partywise/index.htm
official results
what happens to ballots ??? —
re-cycled paper ??? – fed to cows ??? — burned for cooking ???
EL — The 35 minor parties seem to be locally concentrated —
the *others* on gerrymander district maps.
Will ALL the losers get more votes than ALL the winners ???
Stay tuned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_17th_Lok_Sabha
Many one province/state local parties – winners.
See also on google —
India river basins map
– many larger west to east rivers
water- esp. life or death in India
There are electoral alliances that agree not to contest constituencies. The BJP only contested 437 of the 543 seats, winning 303. There were 19 other parties and one independent contesting the other 106 constituencies, winning 49.
Before an election, parties negotiate how many constituencies partners would get and which ones.
India has many languages, and most states are largely based on language. It is like Canada and Quebec on a larger scale. A regional party can dominate a state legislature, but can only have a national influence as part of a coalition. Parliamentary groups may be more fluid, with groups splitting or merging. Voters are more likely to see their vote determining the government, than their personal representative.
I took a sample of 20 constituencies. There was an average of 12.1 candidates, many of them independents, but 65% of them finished below NOTA.
10 of the constituencies were two candidate races, with the third candidate averaging 2.0%. There were 7 constituencies with a notable 3rd candidate, with an average of 7.7%. And there were two 3-way races, and one 4-way, with the candidates receiving an average of 26.5% of the vote.
So generally, any constituency was a 2-way, but with different parties.
PR 0001
Party Members = Total Members x Party Votes / Total Votes
How BAAAAD is the minority rule in the India regime ???
Under 20 pct — who elected 272 lowest BJP winners ???
USA minority rule – about 30 PCT general — 5-15 PCT in primaries.
Media is brain dead super moron stupid about gerrymander math —
worse than SCOTUS math morons.
Thus the moronic media monarch stuff — Trump v Pelosi, etc.