25. Asharambari

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 54.5% to 8.1%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 16.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerINPT (INPT) finished second with 46.0% — it did not contest here in 1998.
• Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 85.9% — a tighter two-way contest.

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