180. Shiggaon

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.5% to 6.3%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 23.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 19.5% — it polled just 0.1% in 1989.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 45.4% between them, down from 93.9% — the field split more ways.

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