172. Anushakti Nagar

Nationalist Congress Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.2% to 2.3%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 13.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerNationalist Congress Party- Sharadchandra Pawar (NCPSP) finished second with 31.5% — it did not contest here in 2019.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.2% between them, down from 84.5% — the field split more ways.

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