250. Bhavani Peth

Shiv Sena held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 11.5% to 3.7%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerNationalist Congress Party (NCP) finished second with 30.1% — it did not contest here in 1995.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 63.8% between them, down from 72.2% — the field split more ways.

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