274. Nawabganj

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 6.6% to 3.1%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerJanata Dal (JD) finished second with 25.3% — it did not contest here in 1989.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 53.6% between them, down from 60.1% — the field split more ways.

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