37. Kushmandi

Rashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 2.6% to 2.2%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 40.0% — it did not contest here in 2011.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.2% between them, down from 92.2% — the field split more ways.
• TurnoutTurnout fell 4.3% to 85.4%.

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