437. Salempur

Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 27.8% to 9.4%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 21.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 20.0% — it did not contest here in 1989.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 49.4% between them, down from 73.2% — the field split more ways.

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