204. Patna South

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.5% to 17.6%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• Runner-up changedSecond place passed from JKD (JKD) to Communist Party of India (CPI).
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 59.7% between them, down from 84.6% — the field split more ways.

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