398. Kharkhauda

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 4.5% to 4.4%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Dal (JD) to Indian National Congress (INC).
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 49.9% between them, down from 64.3% — the field split more ways.

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