70. Rejinagar

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 5.6% to 3.0%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 40.1% — it did not contest here in 2011.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.2% between them, down from 93.9% — the field split more ways.

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