242. Arwal

Independent held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 29.2% to 4.2%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 23.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIPF (IPF) finished second with 27.0% — it did not contest here in 1985.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 58.2% between them, down from 81.1% — the field split more ways.

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