40. Visavadar

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 53.0% to 20.5%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 24.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 28.9% — it did not contest here in 1998.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.3% between them, down from 93.8% — the field split more ways.

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