294. Beed

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.9% to 6.3%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerNationalist Congress Party (NCP) finished second with 34.9% — it did not contest here in 1998.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 76.1% between them, down from 91.9% — the field split more ways.
• TurnoutTurnout rose 13.5% to 68.7%.

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