20. Gondal

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 38.0% to 15.8%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 23.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerNationalist Congress Party (NCP) finished second with 27.2% — it did not contest here in 1998.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.2% between them, down from 95.7% — the field split more ways.

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