46. Surma

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.8% to 11.3%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerCommunist Party of India(Marxist) (CPOI) finished second with 29.0% — it did not contest here in 2018.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.3% between them, down from 96.8% — the field split more ways.
• TurnoutTurnout fell 3.6% to 86.6%.

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