137. Ikauna

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.9% to 6.5%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerSamajwadi Party (SP) finished second with 32.4% — it did not contest here in 1996.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.3% between them, down from 88.6% — the field split more ways.

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