455. Hamirpur

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 6.5% to 1.1%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 24.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerJanata Dal (JD) finished second with 23.4% — it did not contest here in 1989.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 47.9% between them, down from 90.7% — the field split more ways.
• TurnoutTurnout fell 17.8% to 45.6%.

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