33. Kutiyana

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 36.0% to 12.5%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 18.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 32.8% — it did not contest here in 1998.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.1% between them, down from 92.4% — the field split more ways.

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