109. Sultanpur

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.5% to 4.0%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 18.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 18.5% — it did not contest here in 1996.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 41.0% between them, down from 74.9% — the field split more ways.

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