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Sign Up. Edit Profile. Subscribe Now. Your Subscription Plan Cancel Subscription. Home India News Entertainment. HT Insight. My Account. India follows the first-past-the-post system, where the candidate with the most votes in a given constituency wins the seat, while the rest of the votes are effectively rendered void — meaning its the number of seats and not the number of votes overall that decide the winning party.

If the votes are divided more or less evenly between parties, the conversion of votes to seats is proportional. But if a major player loses substantial vote share a party could win despite, it reinforces the disproportionality of the system in favour of the dominant party. In this case, the collapse of the Akali Dal-BJP alliance enabled the Congress to convert its vote share into a disproportionately large seat share.

With A comparison with the seat shares also shows how small variations can have large repercussions in terms of seat distribution. Strike rates indicate how the parties have fared in an alliance. Not much. Representational trends in Punjab have been somewhat stable over the years, with Jatt Sikhs occupying a dominant position in the Assembly, as they are well represented within the Akali Dal and the Congress.

The emergence of the AAP brings a bit more more diversity to the Assembly, with nine of its MLAs from the scheduled caste, four from other backward classes and two upper castes. But overall, the caste equation in the Assembly remains the same. All major parties share equal responsibility for this sorry state of affairs.

This data does not yet enable us to say with certainty AAP dented specifically or essentially into the support base of the Akali Dal. It is assumed this happened because AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal pandered to the Sikh vote base of the Akali Dal by engaging them through symbols, not the least of which was Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale — who was killed on June 6, , during the Golden Temple attack ordered by the Indira Gandhi-led Congress.

But the Congress also suffered a number substantial losses in seats where AAP was the main opponent. The the former ruling alliance won in 18 seats, its candidates trailed in 62 seats, while the AAP stood second in only 26 seats but won