498. Muzaffarnagar

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 17.9% to 6.1%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 13.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerSamajwadi Party (SP) finished second with 30.9% — it did not contest here in 1991.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.8% between them, down from 83.6% — the field split more ways.
• TurnoutTurnout fell 10.2% to 47.8%.

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