8. Gyalshing-Barnyak

Sikkim Krantikari Morcha held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 17.7% to 8.3%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 40.2% — it did not contest here in 2019.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.7% between them, down from 96.5% — the field split more ways.
• TurnoutTurnout rose 2.5% to 85.3%.

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