285. Jahanabad

Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 28.8% to 3.5%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 19.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerSamajwadi Party (SP) finished second with 25.3% — it did not contest here in 1991.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 54.2% between them, down from 67.9% — the field split more ways.

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