243. Balaghat

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.6% to 14.5%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Janahitha Paksha (JP).
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 49.2% between them, down from 83.4% — the field split more ways.
• TurnoutTurnout fell 2.2% to 60.9%.

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