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Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 42.3% to 40.8%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerJharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) finished second with 18.7% — it polled just 1.4% in 1991.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.2% between them, down from 85.0% — the field split more ways.

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