78. Hathras

Bahujan Samaj Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 12.5% to 4.2%.

Boundaries were redrawn between 2007 and 2012 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 17.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 53.5% between them, down from 79.7% — the field split more ways.

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