53. Gauhati East

The seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 28.0%.

• INC vote shareINC went from 11.8% to 59.3% of the vote here (+47.5%).
• New challengerICS (ICS) finished second with 31.3% — it did not contest here in 1978.
• Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.6% of the vote between them, up from 62.2% — a tighter two-way contest.

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