25. Mehkar

Shiv Sena held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 21.0% to 21.4%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 26.4% — it did not contest here in 2009.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.3% between them, down from 95.0% — the field split more ways.

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