203. Bakhtiarpur

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 20.4% to 0.2%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 25.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerJanata Dal (JD) finished second with 23.4% — it did not contest here in 1985.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 47.1% between them, down from 77.7% — the field split more ways.

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