Close contest and landslide victories

Analyzing the vote difference % and looking into the close battles and landslide victories.

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Histogram showing the distribution of median vote difference of each of the 300 seats.

Insight

Most seats have a median vote difference <20%, indicating that most seats have close contest between the top 2 candidates.

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Map visualizing the seats that have a close contest (average vote difference <20%). Seats with lighter shade have closer contest on avarage than seats with a darker shade.

Insight

Most seats have an average vote difference of less than 10% and go through a close battle.

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Map visualizing the seats that have a landslide victory i.e. winners winning by a huge margin (>40% vote difference).

Insight

Seats around Gopalganj and some seats in the north-east have landslide victory.