18. Hazratbal

JKN held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 40.3% to 23.0%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 15.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerJammu & Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) finished second with 26.8% — it did not contest here in 1996.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 76.6% between them, down from 89.9% — the field split more ways.

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