17. Saitual

Independent held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 14.2% to 0.3%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerMizo National Front (MNF) finished second with 32.0% — it did not contest here in 1987.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.2% between them, down from 71.6% — the field split more ways.

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