5. Langate

JKN held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 43.3% to 9.0%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 31.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerJammu & Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) finished second with 21.2% — it did not contest here in 1996.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 51.3% between them, down from 79.9% — the field split more ways.

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