173. Naugarh

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 9.5% to 13.3%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerJanata Dal (JD) finished second with 21.0% — it polled just 0.4% in 1993.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 55.3% between them, down from 84.7% — the field split more ways.

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