30. Koppal

Independent held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 10.6% to 8.5%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 20.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Janata Dal (JD).
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 37.8% between them, down from 76.3% — the field split more ways.

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