22. Laban

HPU held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 12.0% to 8.4%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 31.0% — it did not contest here in 1988.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.5% between them, down from 89.3% — the field split more ways.

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