162. Katra Bazar

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 45.6% to 26.8%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 14.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerSamajwadi Party (SP) finished second with 21.8% — it did not contest here in 1991.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.4% between them, down from 80.8% — the field split more ways.

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