61. Bettiah

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 8.2% to 6.1%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerRashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) finished second with 37.6% — it did not contest here in 1996.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.2% between them, down from 92.9% — the field split more ways.
• TurnoutTurnout rose 5.6% to 62.9%.

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