125. Chikmagalur

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.3% to 12.6%.

Boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2008 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 17.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Janata Dal (Secular) (JDS).
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.4% between them, down from 90.9% — the field split more ways.

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