60. Barkhetry

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 37.1% to 14.3%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 20.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerTNGP (TNGP) finished second with 31.6% — it did not contest here in 2001.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.5% between them, down from 96.6% — the field split more ways.

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