240. Mughalsarai

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 12.1% to 4.8%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 13.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerSamajwadi Party (SP) finished second with 30.9% — it did not contest here in 1993.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.5% between them, down from 85.9% — the field split more ways.

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