88. Gaighat

Rashtriya Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.1% to 4.2%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerJanata Dal (United) (JDU) finished second with 28.7% — it did not contest here in 2015.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 61.7% between them, down from 79.5% — the field split more ways.

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