127. Varkala

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.2% to 1.5%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.6% between them, down from 88.6% — the field split more ways.

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