135. Shahapur

Nationalist Congress Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.3% to 0.8%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerNationalist Congress Party- Sharadchandra Pawar (NCPSP) finished second with 34.5% — it did not contest here in 2019.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.9% between them, down from 84.6% — the field split more ways.

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