40. Jaipur Rural

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.8% to 24.2%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerJanata Dal (JD) finished second with 23.3% — it did not contest here in 1990.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.8% between them, down from 88.5% — the field split more ways.

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