72. Barchalla

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 12.3% to 0.9%.

• Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 69.7% of the vote between them, up from 59.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
• Knife-edgeDecided by 922 votes (0.95%) — among the closest results anywhere.
• Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

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