31. Along East

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.9% to 4.7%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 16.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 32.6% — it did not contest here in 1990.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.0% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.

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