405. Khatauli

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.3% to 10.9%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerJanata Dal (JD) finished second with 28.1% — it did not contest here in 1991.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.1% between them, down from 77.0% — the field split more ways.

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