44. Gulbarga Dakshin

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 14.5% to 8.5%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 14.6% — 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 54.3% between them, down from 77.5% — the field split more ways.

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