CREATE TABLE table_204_982 (id NUMBER, "party/electoral alliance" CLOB, "seats" NUMBER, "change" NUMBER, "votes" NUMBER, "%" CLOB)

total number of parties who lost seats in the argentine chamber of deputies in the legislative election of 1930
SELECT COUNT("party/electoral alliance") FROM table_204_982 WHERE "change" < 0
SELECT COUNT("party/electoral alliance") FROM "table_204_982" WHERE "change" < 0