313. Alot

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 10.8% to 5.7%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 35.9% — it polled just 0.5% in 1993.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.5% between them, down from 98.1% — the field split more ways.

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