144. Sheikhpura

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.2% to 0.9%.

• Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 61.0% of the vote between them, up from 46.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
• Knife-edgeDecided by 1,266 votes (0.93%) — 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.