201. Tandur

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 29.4% to 27.9%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 29.3% — it did not contest here in 1978.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.4% between them, down from 98.2% — the field split more ways.

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