128. Sambalpur

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.6% to 22.0%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 18.8% — it polled just 0.3% in 1990.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 59.6% between them, down from 84.0% — the field split more ways.

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