170. Basavanagudi

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 13.7% to 19.0%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.9% — 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 65.6% between them, down from 90.7% — the field split more ways.

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