85. Lucknow East

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 49.2% to 0.5%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 33.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerSamajwadi Party (SP) finished second with 32.8% — it did not contest here in 1996.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.1% between them, down from 84.3% — the field split more ways.

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