18. Pynthorumkhrah

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 46.4% to 40.9%.

Boundaries were redrawn between 2003 and 2008 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.2% between them, down from 93.5% — the field split more ways.

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