74. Mahbubnagar

Independent held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.5% to 4.4%.

Boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 17.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Telugu Desam Party (TDP) to Bharat Rashtra Samithi (formerly TRS) (BRS).
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 61.2% between them, down from 85.8% — the field split more ways.

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