Rajasthan MPs scored a 43.4 per cent on the satisfaction index while Gujarat MPs did reasonably well too with 40.4 per cent. (Photo: PTI)

As India prepares to elect its members of Parliament for the seventeenth Lok Sabha, we at the India Today Data Intelligence Unit, did a review of how satisfied people were from across all states with the MPs they sent to Parliament in 2014.

We have drawn our conclusions based on data collected by well-known survey agency C-voter that spoke to close to 60,000 respondents across all 543 Lok Sabha constituencies between January 1 to March 18, 2019.

On the basis of a state-wise break-up, Kerala seemed to be most satisfied with its MPs. They scored a healthy 44.4 per cent on the satisfaction chart. In the southernmost state of the country, Congress emerged victorious with 7 seats out of the total 20, while the group of Left parties scooped up the rest. Kerala polls will be held in a single phase this election on April 23.

In the chart, Rajasthan and Gujarat come a close second and third respectively. Rajasthan members of Parliament scored a 43.4 per cent on the satisfaction index while Gujarat MPs did reasonably well too with 40.4 per cent.

In times of stiff competition between the BJP and Trinamool, Mamata Banerjee can heave a sigh of relief as West Bengal seems largely satisfied with its members of Parliament. In the last elections, TMC had sent 19 MPs to the Lok Sabha, while BJP had sent only two, Unions Ministers Babul Supriyo and SS Ahluwalia. While Supriyo has been renominated by the BJP to contest from Asansol, Ahluwalia has been dropped from Darjeeling after protests by allies GJM (Gurung faction) and GNLF.

What is shocking though is the country's largest state that sends the maximum number of representatives to the Lok Sabha (80), is deeply dissatisfied with the latter's performance. On the satisfaction chart, Uttar Pradesh scores a miserable 8.2 per cent, third from the bottom.

In comparison, the country's youngest state, Telangana can give itself a pat on the back. Its 17 MPs (2 seats are vacant since end-2018), largely belonging to the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samiti, have put the state fifth on the rankings chart, scoring 35.7 per cent.

But it is the MPs of Tamil Nadu that have a lot to answer for. Their electorate has put their ranking in the negative, at -1.5 per cent. This reflects majorly on the AIADMK, that won 37 of the 39 Lok Sabha seats from the state in 2014, and since then has turned into a divided house after the demise of their leader, late chief minister J Jayalalitha in 2016. It remains to be seen if the newly forged equations in the post-Jayalalitha, post-Karunanidhi era of Tamil Nadu politics impresses the state's voters.