Patil Chandrakant Raghunath of Bharatiya Janata Party from Navsari constituency polled 71 per cent of total votes, according to the Association for Democratic Reforms and National Election Watch analysis. It says of the 282 winners of BJP, 142 winners or 50 per cent have won with less than 50 per cent of total votes polled in their constituency.
In the Congress, 37 winners, or 84 per cent of the 44 winners from the party, polled less than 50 per cent, while in the AIADMK it was 30 candidates or 81 per cent of its 37 winners.
In the Trinamool Congress, 28 winners, or 82 per cent of the 34 winners won with less than 50 per cent, 13 winners of the Biju Janata Dal of its 20 winners got less than 50 per cent, while six of the 18 winners from Shiv Sena won with less than 50 per cent of total votes polled in their constituency, says the study.
Among those who got less than 40 per cent vote share were 99 winners. Only four winners got less than 30 per cent votes polled, including BJP's Thupstan Chhewang in Ladakh who polled 31,111 votes - a vote share of 26 per cent.
In Lok Sabha elections 2009, the winners won by an average of 26 per cent of the total registered voters. ADR also did a study on representativeness calculated by total votes polled for winner divided by the total number of registered voters.
Vote share is calculated by dividing the votes polled for the winner by the total number of valid votes. This value represents the percentage of votes won by the winning candidate among the total number of valid votes polled.
Under the head representativeness, the survey found that all the winners of the Lok Sabha 2014 election won with an average of 31 per cent of the total registered voters. This implies that the winners represent on an average, 31 per cent of the total electorate in their constituency.
Only four MPs out of 543 have shown representativeness of more than 50 per cent, and they include Neiphiu Rio of Nagaland who polled 60 per cent.
Three winners have the lowest representativeness. Tariq Hameed Karra from Srinagar won with 13 per cent of the total registered voters in the constituency followed by Muzaffar Hussain Baig from Baramulla constituency and Mehbooba Mufti from Anantnag constituency - both with 15 per cent of the total registered voters in their constituency. All three winners are from the Peoples Democratic Party.
The total number of votes polled for the none of the above (NOTA) option was 6,000,197, or 1.08 per cent of total votes polled.
The highest per centage of votes polled for NOTA in a constituency was in Bastar, Chhattisgarh with 38,772 or 5.04 per cent votes. This was followed by Nilgiris constituency, Tamil Nadu with 46,559 or 4.99 per cent votes, and 44,408 or 4.34 per cent votes in Nabarangpur constituency, Odisha.
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