395. Sardhana

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.3% to 0.7%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerBahujan Samaj Party (BSP) finished second with 25.4% — it did not contest here in 1993.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 51.4% between them, down from 70.1% — the field split more ways.

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