17. Saundatti Yellamma

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.2% to 12.0%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 57.7% between them, down from 84.2% — the field split more ways.

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