148. Kolar

Independent held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.6% to 7.7%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 13.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerJanata Dal (Secular) (JDS) finished second with 30.8% — it polled just 1.2% in 2008.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.3% between them, down from 88.3% — the field split more ways.

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