19. Diphu

The seat changed hands: Autonomous State Demand Committee (ASDC) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 7.4%.

• INC vote shareINC went from 24.6% to 33.4% of the vote here (+8.8%).
• New challengerASDCU (ASDCU) finished second with 26.0% — it did not contest here in 1996.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 59.4% between them, down from 70.9% — the field split more ways.

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