42. Achalpur

Independent held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.8% to 5.7%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 27.4% — it did not contest here in 2009.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 60.4% between them, down from 76.1% — the field split more ways.

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