56. Kothapeta

Telugu Desam Party held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 15.9% to 15.8%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 14.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 26.0% — it did not contest here in 1994.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.8% between them, down from 96.8% — the field split more ways.

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