281. Amravati

Shiv Sena held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 11.1% to 2.1%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 18.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 27.9% — it polled just 1.2% in 1999.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 58.0% between them, down from 85.3% — the field split more ways.
• TurnoutTurnout fell 2.9% to 56.1%.

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