277. Shirol

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.0% to 10.7%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerNationalist Congress Party (NCP) finished second with 34.1% — it did not contest here in 1995.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.9% between them, down from 88.4% — the field split more ways.

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