272. Pratappur

Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 17.3% to 13.0%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 15.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP).
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 55.1% between them, down from 81.1% — the field split more ways.

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