269. Hazaribagh

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 20.9% to 22.3%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Janata Dal (JD).
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.4% between them, down from 84.4% — the field split more ways.

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