43. Bisalpur

Bahujan Samaj Party held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 6.1% to 5.8%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerRTKP (RTKP) finished second with 18.5% — it did not contest here in 1996.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 42.7% between them, down from 61.8% — the field split more ways.

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