Congress lost its bail in a staggering 387 of the 399 seats it contested in just-concluded assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, in which it won just two seats. Congress received just 2.4% of the total votes in the state after contesting nearly every seat, a lower share than the RLD’s 2.9% of just 33 seats it contested.
Among the other major parties, the BSP lost the deposit of 290 seats after contesting the 403.
Even the big winner, the BJP, lost the deposit on three of the 376 seats it contested and the main challenger SP on six of its 347 candidates.
Interestingly, BJP’s smaller partners Apna Dal (Soneylal) and Nishad did not lose their deposits even in any of the 27 seats they were vying for, indicating that they had only won the seats in which they at least had a fighting chance. back.
On the other hand, SP’s smaller partners, SBSP and Apna Dal (Camerawadi), saw 8 of their 25 candidates in total lose the deposit. Even senior ally RLD lost their deposit in three of the 33 contested seats. A candidate who does not receive at least one-sixth of the total valid votes cast in a constituency loses the deposit according to electoral rules. In total, of the 4,442 participants in UP, 3,522 or almost 80% did not recover their deposit
