259. Hirapur

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 36.3% to 6.5%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.2% of the vote between them, up from 81.0% — a tighter two-way contest.

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