12. Takarjala

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 24.2% to 0.0%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerTUJS (TUJS) finished second with 48.4% — it did not contest here in 1993.
• Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.8% of the vote between them, up from 78.7% — a tighter two-way contest.

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