36. Nari-Koyu

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 36.1% to 4.4%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 27.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 35.8% — it polled just 0.1% in 1999.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 76.0% between them, down from 99.9% — the field split more ways.

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