2. Mandvi

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 11.5% to 20.6%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerAIRJP (AIRJP) finished second with 26.6% — it did not contest here in 1995.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.8% between them, down from 92.6% — the field split more ways.

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