172. Chandernagore

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 22.0% to 0.1%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.7% of the vote between them, up from 87.7% — a tighter two-way contest.

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