36. Baniapur

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.3% to 4.4%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 27.3% — it did not contest here in 1980.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 59.1% between them, down from 68.8% — the field split more ways.

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