88. Bhagalpur

Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 64.8% to 28.0%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 29.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 24.4% — it polled just 0.7% in 1989.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 76.7% between them, down from 98.2% — the field split more ways.
• TurnoutTurnout fell 7.1% to 57.0%.

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