454. Gorakhpur

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.9% to 10.2%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerSamajwadi Party (SP) finished second with 32.1% — it did not contest here in 1991.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.3% between them, down from 79.6% — the field split more ways.
• TurnoutTurnout fell 5.3% to 45.7%.

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