284. Bhandara

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 0.6% to 0.4%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.1% between them, down from 91.0% — the field split more ways.

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