121. Sonabarsa

Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin widened from 7.7% to 26.4%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 10.9% — it polled just 1.8% in 1990.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 48.3% between them, down from 83.5% — the field split more ways.

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