31. Kushmandi

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 18.9% to 1.0%.

• Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 99.2% of the vote between them, up from 61.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
• Knife-edgeDecided by 334 votes (0.95%) — among the closest results anywhere.

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