317. Manika

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 36.1% to 15.7%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 32.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 19.5% — it did not contest here in 1985.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 54.7% 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.