14. Chandausi

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 28.6% to 0.6%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 18.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerSamajwadi Party (SP) finished second with 33.5% — it did not contest here in 1996.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.6% between them, down from 76.8% — the field split more ways.

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