275. Nandurbar

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 11.6% to 19.5%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerNationalist Congress Party (NCP) finished second with 28.0% — it did not contest here in 1998.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 75.4% between them, down from 95.7% — the field split more ways.
• TurnoutTurnout rose 9.3% to 62.2%.

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