509. Maldaha Dakshin

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.0% to 0.6%.

• Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 68.8% of the vote between them, up from 54.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
• Knife-edgeDecided by 8,222 votes (0.64%) — among the closest results anywhere.
• Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

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