19. Bhadrak

Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin widened from 18.3% to 21.6%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 22.8% — it polled just 0.2% in 1990.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.1% between them, down from 95.0% — the field split more ways.

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