36. Bareilly City

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 48.1% to 13.9%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 23.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerSamajwadi Party (SP) finished second with 25.7% — it did not contest here in 1996.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.3% between them, down from 77.9% — the field split more ways.

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