262. Kodarma

Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.2% to 16.0%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 26.4% — it did not contest here in 1990.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.8% between them, down from 89.2% — the field split more ways.

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