26. Arithang

Sikkim Krantikari Morcha held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 23.1% to 6.0%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 17.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) to Independent (IND).
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.0% between them, down from 92.7% — the field split more ways.
• TurnoutTurnout fell 4.2% to 69.0%.

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