40. Ottapalam

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 23.3% to 4.9%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 13.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 92.2% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.

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