167. Shikaripura

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.8% to 2.6%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 38.8% — it polled just 1.1% in 1985.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.3% between them, down from 91.2% — the field split more ways.

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