42. Goregaon

Shiv Sena held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 35.0% to 6.9%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerNationalist Congress Party (NCP) finished second with 43.1% — it did not contest here in 1999.
• Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.2% of the vote between them, up from 78.9% — a tighter two-way contest.

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