NEW DELHI: Arvind Kejriwal may have declined to furnish a bail bond worth Rs 10,000, but his party may have ended up contributing almost 1,000 times more to the treasury on account of forfeited security deposits in 414 of the 432 Lok Sabha seats contested by it. AAP candidates, who contested 432 of the 543 Lok Sabha seats across the country, could hold on to their security deposit in barely 18 seats. These included eight seats in Punjab, of which it won four, all the seven seats in Delhi NCT and one seat each in Chandigarh, Maharashtra (Chandrapur) and Uttar Pradesh (Varanasi).In as many as 414 seats, AAP candidates had to forfeit their security deposits, having failed to bag one-sixth of the total votes polled there.A general candidate contesting a parliamentary poll must make a security deposit of Rs 25,000, according to Section 34(1)(a) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951. However, a candidate belonging to the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes needs to deposit only half of this amount, or Rs 12,500.In case the candidate fails to secure a minimum of one-sixth of total valid votes cast, he must forfeit his security deposit, which then goes to the treasury.Though a break-up of general and SC/ST candidates fielded by AAP was not immediately available, assuming that all candidates made a security deposit of Rs 25,000 each, the total forfeited amount across 414 seats would come to over Rs 1 crore, or Rs 1,03,50,000 to be precise.AAP, which bagged a national vote-share of around 2%, did well in just two states. It won four of the 13 seats in Punjab and retained its security deposit in four other seats, and was the runner-up in all seven seats in Delhi NCR. However, it lost all the seats contested by it in most other states.In Uttar Pradesh, AAP candidates lost the security deposit in all but one of the 76 seats contested. The exception, of course, was Varanasi, where party nominee Arvind Kejriwal lost to BJP rival Narendra Modi but polled enough votes to retain his security deposit. Other high-profile candidates fared badly; while Kumar Vishvas finished fourth with barely 25,527 in Amethi, Shazia Ilmi, who quit AAP only today, ended up in the fifth place with 89,147 votes.In Maharashtra, only the AAP nominee from Chandapur could save his deposit, while the other 47 candidates lost theirs. All the AAP candidates in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Chattisgarh, Assam, Haryana, Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Goa, Tripura, Manipur, Meghalaya, Jammu & Kashmir, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Puducherry, Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu ended up forfeiting their election deposits.