4. Devgad

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.0% to 16.5%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 16.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 23.5% — it polled just 0.6% in 1995.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 63.4% between them, down from 91.2% — the field split more ways.

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