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In a study on the Assembly, the ADR has also found that the number of candidates, with a vote share of 50 per cent or more in their constituency, has declined.
“All the winners of the Goa State Assembly Elections, 2017 won with an average of 39 per cent of the total registered voters. This implies that the winners represent on an average 39 per cent of the total electorate,” the ADR said in a statement released to
the press.
In the Goa State Assembly Elections, 2012 winners won by an average of 43 per cent of the total registered votes.
Representativeness is calculated by dividing the total number of votes polled by the winning candidate against the total number of eligible voters in the constituency.
Among the winning candidates MGP’s Ramkrishna ‘Sudin’ Dhavalikar has the highest representativeness with a figure of 63 per cent, closely followed by Dayanand Sopte with 53 per cent and Deepak Prabhu Pauskar with 52 per cent. At the other end of the spectrum is Alina Saldanha with a representativeness of 19 per cent, followed by Clafasio Dias and Antonio ‘Tony’ Fernandes, both with 22 per cent.
Vote shares too have gone down by 4 per cent. The winners of the Goa State Assembly elections, 2017 won by an average of 48 per cent of total votes polled. In the 2012 elections, winners won by an average of 52 per cent of total votes polled.
When it comes to vote share, Ramkrishna Dhavalikar keeps his place by winning the highest vote share of 73 per cent, while Pandurang Madkaikar and Aleixo Lourenço secured a vote share of 60 per cent each, while Alina Saldanha, Clafasio Dias and Antonio ‘Tony’ Fernandes keep their places as having secured the lowest vote share.
Overall, the Congress candidates had the best vote share, followed by BJP, with NCP and Goa Forward having the worst vote share among the candidates who won. Two of the three winning Goa Forward candidates had a margin of victory less than
10 per cent.
