159. Manicktola

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 11.2% to 5.4%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 90.7% between them, down from 98.1% — the field split more ways.

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