107. Kantabanji

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.3% to 2.1%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 15.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 27.2% — it polled just 0.6% in 1995.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 56.4% between them, down from 82.2% — the field split more ways.

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