2. Patharkandi

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 5.1% to 0.9%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Independent (IND) to Indian National Congress (INC).
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 46.5% between them, down from 57.8% — the field split more ways.

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