373. Aligarh

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 4.9% to 1.4%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerBahujan Samaj Party (BSP) finished second with 39.4% — it polled just 0.7% in 1991.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.3% between them, down from 89.7% — the field split more ways.

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