49. Tamlu

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 12.2% to 1.6%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 24.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerNDM (NDM) finished second with 29.7% — it did not contest here in 1998.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 61.1% 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.