60. Khunti

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.5% to 0.5%.

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 12.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerJharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) finished second with 33.3% — it did not contest here in 2005.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.0% between them, down from 75.2% — the field split more ways.

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