93. Safipur

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 3.4% to 0.1%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerBahujan Samaj Party (BSP) finished second with 30.1% — it did not contest here in 1993.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 60.3% between them, down from 69.0% — the field split more ways.

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