88. Banka

The seat changed hands: Samajwadi Andolan Party (SAP) lost it to Janata Dal (United) (JDU), which now leads by 3.4%.

• JDU vote shareJDU went from 0.0% to 37.3% of the vote here (+37.3%).
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 33.9% — it polled just 0.7% in 1998.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.1% between them, down from 92.6% — the field split more ways.
• TurnoutTurnout fell 7.5% to 58.9%.

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