237. Nawada

Rashtriya Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin widened from 9.5% to 14.5%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 25.5% — it polled just 1.4% in 2015.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.6% between them, down from 90.7% — the field split more ways.
• TurnoutTurnout fell 3.6% to 51.2%.

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