31. Along East

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.1% to 9.4%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerNationalist Congress Party (NCP) finished second with 35.1% — it did not contest here in 2009.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.7% 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.