17. Sambalpur

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 12.7% to 8.9%.

Boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.1% between them, down from 91.5% — the field split more ways.

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