245. Madha

Nationalist Congress Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 35.1% to 16.0%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 17.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 27.8% — it did not contest here in 2009.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.6% between them, down from 87.4% — the field split more ways.

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