25. Asharambari

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 67.2% to 54.5%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 15.7% — it polled just 1.8% in 1993.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.9% between them, down from 93.3% — the field split more ways.

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