30. Along West

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 30.7% to 3.6%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 17.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 44.8% — it did not contest here in 1999.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 93.1% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.

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