91. Avanigadda

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.7% to 12.8%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 25.6% — it polled just 1.5% in 1978.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.0% between them, down from 87.1% — the field split more ways.

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