265. Mumbai South Central

Shiv Sena held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.5% to 6.4%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerNationalist Congress Party (NCP) finished second with 30.6% — it did not contest here in 1999.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.5% between them, down from 74.4% — the field split more ways.
• TurnoutTurnout rose 4.2% to 49.4%.

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