247. Aurai

Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 17.5% to 1.5%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 18.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 30.0% — it did not contest here in 1989.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 61.5% between them, down from 82.3% — the field split more ways.

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