280. Sirathu

Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.4% to 6.7%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 15.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 27.0% — it did not contest here in 1989.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 60.6% between them, down from 82.2% — the field split more ways.

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