153. Surat City West

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 23.4% to 15.2%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 24.8% — it did not contest here in 1967.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.8% between them, down from 75.2% — the field split more ways.

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