India 2014 - Results

[EPG]

It's interesting to consider that most countries with FPTP, we typically see little proliferation of minor parties; but India has piles of them.

Has their ever been any move to reform the electoral system?

One presumes it's to do with linguistic, religious and caste fragmentation, federalism, and historic weakness in transport/communications, making returns to scale of parties very small.

[EPG]

Very nice.

It is harder to know with Indian maps whether parties would be strong or weak if they contested in certain areas. I'm sure the rest of Maharashtra would be better for BJP than Kerala, for example. It does rather seem to radiate from Ahmedabad...