39. Sanguem

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.8% to 2.2%.

Boundaries were redrawn between 2007 and 2012 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 18.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerNationalist Congress Party (NCP) finished second with 32.4% — it did not contest here in 2007.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.1% between them, down from 90.5% — the field split more ways.

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