219. Mangalvedhe

Nationalist Congress Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.9% to 12.7%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerShiv Sena (SHS) finished second with 27.4% — it did not contest here in 1999.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.4% between them, down from 84.1% — the field split more ways.

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