57. Pilibhit

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 14.7% to 8.5%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerSJPR (SJPR) finished second with 21.9% — it did not contest here in 1993.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 52.2% between them, down from 60.5% — the field split more ways.

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