12. Mairang

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.8% to 7.8%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 16.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerHPDP (HPDP) finished second with 29.9% — it did not contest here in 1993.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.6% between them, down from 88.1% — the field split more ways.

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