243. Varanasi North

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 14.3% to 6.7%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 33.8% — it polled just 0.7% in 1991.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.3% between them, down from 89.0% — the field split more ways.

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