280. Sirathu

Bahujan Samaj Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 10.3% to 8.9%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerSamajwadi Party (SP) finished second with 27.0% — it did not contest here in 1993.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 62.9% between them, down from 74.9% — the field split more ways.

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