451. Allahabad

Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.4% to 1.3%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 13.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 28.4% — it did not contest here in 1989.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 58.1% between them, down from 76.5% — the field split more ways.
• TurnoutTurnout fell 4.0% to 39.3%.

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