58. Ampatigiri

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 30.9% to 12.4%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 16.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerNationalist Congress Party (NCP) finished second with 28.6% — it did not contest here in 1998.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.6% between them, down from 84.9% — the field split more ways.

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