180. Doddaballapur

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 3.0% to 1.0%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 15.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 25.2% — it polled just 1.2% in 2008.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 51.5% between them, down from 79.6% — the field split more ways.

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