3. Barhait

Jharkhand Mukti Morcha held the seat; the winning margin widened from 14.9% to 20.0%.

Boundaries were redrawn between 2005 and 2009 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to Independent (IND).
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 60.1% between them, down from 76.9% — the field split more ways.

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