186. Jamalpur

Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 29.8% to 7.1%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 16.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerSamajwadi Andolan Party (SAP) finished second with 22.4% — it did not contest here in 1990.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 51.9% between them, down from 61.8% — the field split more ways.

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