54. Lakhimpur

Samajwadi Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.8% to 4.9%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 14.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerSD (SD) finished second with 30.5% — it did not contest here in 1996.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.9% between them, down from 77.4% — the field split more ways.

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