56. Puri

Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 56.3% to 2.4%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 39.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 31.1% — it polled just 0.2% in 1990.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.7% between them, down from 90.1% — the field split more ways.

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