158. Jammalamadugu

Telugu Desam Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 60.5% to 35.2%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 32.1% — it did not contest here in 1985.
• Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 99.5% of the vote between them, up from 90.1% — a tighter two-way contest.

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