276. Hindupur

Telugu Desam Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.5% to 6.1%.

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 19.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 25.6% — it polled just 0.7% in 2004.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 57.3% between them, down from 95.8% — the field split more ways.

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