79. Sitapur

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.3% to 14.5%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerJanahitha Paksha (JP) finished second with 22.4% — it did not contest here in 1989.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 59.3% between them, down from 67.8% — the field split more ways.

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