70. Lakhimpur

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.5% to 0.2%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerSamajwadi Party (SP) finished second with 29.1% — it did not contest here in 1991.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 58.3% between them, down from 76.9% — the field split more ways.

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