202. Chikmagalur

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.2% to 9.0%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.3% between them, down from 86.6% — the field split more ways.
• TurnoutTurnout rose 5.0% to 73.1%.

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