16. Kangan

JKN held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 86.2% to 42.1%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 25.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerJammu & Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) finished second with 22.7% — it did not contest here in 1996.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.4% between them, down from 94.2% — the field split more ways.

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