36. Madhubani

Rashtriya Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 4.3% to 3.6%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerVSIP (VSIP) finished second with 34.4% — it did not contest here in 2015.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.4% between them, down from 86.2% — the field split more ways.

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