8. Western Angami

NPC held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 8.5% to 2.7%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 18.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 33.4% — it did not contest here in 1989.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.5% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.

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