20. Ponda

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.2% to 6.7%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerMAG (MAG) finished second with 33.9% — it polled just 1.2% in 2002.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.5% between them, down from 94.4% — the field split more ways.

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