151. Dhakuria

Rashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 10.3% to 11.2%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 34.1% — it polled just 1.9% in 1987.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.5% between them, down from 95.9% — the field split more ways.

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