In order to understand this measure of this inefficiency consider a party which targets, say, 200 (out of a total of 543) seats in the Lok Sabha. Then, from equation (6.2), the vote ratio which will deliver this is: …show more content…
MacMahon— – in evidence before the Royal Commission on Systems of Elections (2010). Bear in mind that ‘observations’ were distinguished by constituency name and by election year: so, for example, Adilabad in the 1989 Lok Sabha election represented a separate observation from Adilabad in the 1991 Lok Sabha election.
Party A: (1/4.4) × 100 = 22.7 and party B: (3.4/4.4) × 100 = 77.3. Another perverse outcome would be when party A obtains more votes than party B but wins fewer seats: . In this situation the numerator in equation (2) is negative, with the denominator positive, so that α < 0. This is a situation in which where the party A’s majority in votes fails to translate into a parliamentary majority. This implies that in 2014, the INC received 19.3 % of total votes while winning only 8 % of seats while the BJP, with 31 % of total vote, won 52 % of the seats. For the INC, and; for the BJP,