78. Vijayawada West

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.7% to 6.2%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 31.2% — it polled just 1.1% in 1967.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.5% between them, down from 91.4% — the field split more ways.

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