118. Duliajan

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 11.2% to 16.9%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerAsom Gana Parishad (AGP) finished second with 25.5% — it did not contest here in 2001.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.9% between them, down from 90.3% — the field split more ways.

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