243. Maval

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 15.3% to 14.9%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerNationalist Congress Party (NCP) finished second with 28.2% — it did not contest here in 1995.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.3% between them, down from 90.9% — the field split more ways.

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