33. Bijni

Independent held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.7% to 3.4%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 17.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM) finished second with 25.6% — it did not contest here in 2001.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 54.6% between them, down from 70.5% — the field split more ways.

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