119. Kalol

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 6.6% to 2.2%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 17.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 30.6% — it polled just 1.6% in 2002.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 63.4% between them, down from 94.6% — the field split more ways.

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