How four lucky candidates have been chosen as best losers

Of the 62 elected candidates, here is a breakdown by community declared. The last column gives the distribution of communities in Mauritius according to the 1972 census.

Community	Number elected	Percentage elected	Percentage of population according to 1972 census
Hindu	36	64.3	51.8
General Population	15	26.8	28.7
Muslim	9	16.1	16.6
Sino-Mauritian	2	3.6	2.9

And here is how the four lucky candidates were chosen as best losers.

 

Key Elected candidate         Best loser        

 

Name	Community	Percentage of valid votes	Constituency	Party	Symbol
HENRIETTE-MANAN Dianette Chosen as 1st best loser as General Population is under-represented and she has the highest percentage of votes among unelected candidates of that community.	General Population	46.808%	21	Alliance Liberation
EDOUARD Jacques Chosen as 2nd best loser as General Population is under-represented and he has the second highest percentage of votes among unelected candidates of that community.	General Population	44.696%	21	Alliance Liberation
JUGNAUTH Pravind Kumar	Hindu	42.302%	8	L'Alliance Lepep
DOOKUN LUCHOOMUN Leela Devi	Hindu	39.153%	7	L'Alliance Lepep
MAUDHOO Sudheer	Hindu	37.792%	9	L'Alliance Lepep
DOOMUN Rubesh Vishwa	Hindu	37.749%	9	L'Alliance Lepep
JAGUTPAL Kailesh Kumar Singh	Hindu	37.288%	13	L'Alliance Lepep
JHUGROO Purmanund (also known as Mahen JHUGROO)	Hindu	36.918%	7	L'Alliance Lepep
RAMCHURN Vijaye Anand	Hindu	35.873%	9	L'Alliance Lepep
YERRIGADOO Ravi Raj	Hindu	35.682%	7	L'Alliance Lepep
HURDOYAL Teeruthraj (also known as Vikram HURDOYAL)	Hindu	35.624%	10	L'Alliance Lepep
MANNICK Randhir	Hindu	35.494%	11	L'Alliance Lepep
BALGOBIN Darsanand (also known as Deepak BALGOBIN)	Hindu	35.115%	8	L'Alliance Lepep
PADAYACHY Renganaden	Hindu	35.084%	13	L'Alliance Lepep
SOHODEB Vikesh Kumar	Hindu	34.959%	10	L'Alliance Lepep
SEERUTTUN Mahen Kumar	Hindu	34.871%	11	L'Alliance Lepep
CALLICHURN Soodesh Satkam	Hindu	34.256%	5	L'Alliance Lepep
LUTCHMANEN Ravindrasen (also known as Lovin LUTCHMANEN)	Hindu	33.487%	8	L'Alliance Lepep
KOONJOO-SHAH Kalpana Devi	Hindu	32.911%	11	L'Alliance Lepep
DUVAL Adrien Charles Chosen as 3rd best loser as General Population is under-represented and he has the third highest percentage of votes among unelected candidates of that community.	General Population	32.665%	4	L'Alliance Lepep
DOOLUB Rameswar (also known as Kavi Doolub DOOLUB)	Hindu	32.216%	12	L'Alliance Lepep
CHITBAHAL Sameer Udhin	Muslim	32.143%	10	L'Alliance Lepep
LUCHMUN ROY Subhasnee	Hindu	31.761%	4	L'Alliance Lepep
BHADAIN Sudarshan (also known as Roshi Bhadain BHADAIN)	Hindu	31.122%	20	Linion Reform
LESJONGARD Georges Pierre (also known as Joe Lesjongard LESJONGARD) Chosen as 4th best loser as General Population is under-represented and he has the fourth highest percentage of votes among unelected candidates of that community.	General Population	30.868%	4	L'Alliance Lepep
RAMANO Kavydass	Hindu	30.433%	18	L'Alliance Lepep
MOOROTEEA Coomdeo (also known as Sanjay MOOROTEEA)	Hindu	30.338%	6	L'Alliance Lepep
JUGNAUTH Neeshal Kumar	Hindu	30.195%	6	L'Alliance Lepep

(Only candidates having obtained more than 30% of votes in their respective constituencies are shown.)

Interestingly, some candidates who declared themselves as Hindus (e.g. Pravind Jugnauth) and Muslims (e.g Sameer Udhin Chitbahal) were not chosen as best losers despite obtaining a large proportion of votes because the Hindu community is already well represented in Parliament with 36 elected candidates and Muslims with 9 elected members.

To the extent that there are no successful parties, other than Alliance du Changement and Organisation du Peuple de Rodrigues (OPR), only four best losers were chosen instead of eight.