36. Santirbazar

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.5% to 8.8%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerTipra Motha Party (TMP) finished second with 31.3% — it did not contest here in 2018.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.3% between them, down from 96.9% — the field split more ways.
• TurnoutTurnout fell 2.5% to 90.6%.

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