135. Nagpur South

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 29.3% to 6.6%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 15.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 30.6% — it did not contest here in 1985.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.8% between them, down from 75.5% — the field split more ways.

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