182. Chandernagore

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 48.9% to 2.4%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 17.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.2% of the vote between them, up from 85.6% — a tighter two-way contest.

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