164. Tarapur

Janata Dal (United) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.8% to 4.1%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerRashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) finished second with 32.8% — it did not contest here in 2015.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.7% between them, down from 79.4% — the field split more ways.
• TurnoutTurnout rose 2.4% to 55.0%.

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