9. Banamalipur

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.2% to 6.2%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerJDB (JDB) finished second with 43.0% — it did not contest here in 1988.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 92.1% between them, down from 99.3% — the field split more ways.

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