58. Tamulpur

Independent held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.0% to 2.8%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 22.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerAsom Gana Parishad (AGP) finished second with 28.3% — it did not contest here in 2001.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 59.5% between them, down from 90.4% — the field split more ways.

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