16. Madhuban

Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 36.4% to 27.3%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerSamajwadi Andolan Party (SAP) finished second with 17.6% — it did not contest here in 1990.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 62.5% between them, down from 78.3% — the field split more ways.

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