265. Buldhana

Shiv Sena held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.9% to 3.3%.

Boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerNationalist Congress Party (NCP) finished second with 38.2% — it did not contest here in 2004.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.6% between them, down from 89.3% — the field split more ways.

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