179. Barh

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.8% to 6.8%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 26.1% — it did not contest here in 2015.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 59.0% between them, down from 83.1% — the field split more ways.

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