255. Phaltan

Nationalist Congress Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 30.4% to 26.2%.

Boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 14.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.7% between them, down from 92.9% — the field split more ways.

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