188. Bhokardan

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 14.8% to 17.7%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerNationalist Congress Party (NCP) finished second with 24.0% — it did not contest here in 1995.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.7% between them, down from 74.6% — the field split more ways.

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