12. Dhrangadhra

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 1.6% to 1.4%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 32.4% — it polled just 0.4% in 1998.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.1% between them, down from 87.5% — the field split more ways.

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