164. Dhuriapur

Bahujan Samaj Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.2% to 8.8%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerNew Labour Party (NLP) finished second with 18.6% — it did not contest here in 1996.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 46.1% between them, down from 68.8% — the field split more ways.

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