249. Kasba Peth

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 22.8% to 28.0%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerNationalist Congress Party (NCP) finished second with 26.7% — it did not contest here in 1995.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.3% between them, down from 93.8% — the field split more ways.

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