27. Yelburga

The seat changed hands: Janata Dal (JD) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 4.5%.

• INC vote shareINC went from 19.6% to 35.0% of the vote here (+15.4%).
• New challengerJanata Dal (United) (JDU) finished second with 30.5% — it did not contest here in 1994.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.4% between them, down from 79.7% — the field split more ways.

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