26. Anantapur

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 26.5% to 12.3%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 14.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 32.3% — it did not contest here in 1991.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 76.9% between them, down from 91.8% — the field split more ways.
• TurnoutTurnout fell 7.8% to 52.6%.

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