52. Aurad

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 27.1% to 18.0%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerKerala Janatha Party (KJP) finished second with 29.9% — it did not contest here in 2008.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.8% between them, down from 84.1% — the field split more ways.

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