154. Nala

Communist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.8% to 0.7%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 13.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM).
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 45.9% between them, down from 59.0% — the field split more ways.

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