288. Nakrekal

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.0% to 0.9%.

• Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 80.6% of the vote between them, up from 62.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
• Knife-edgeDecided by 646 votes (0.90%) — among the closest results anywhere.
• Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.