162. Chikhli

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.2% to 9.7%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 34.8% — it did not contest here in 1967.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.4% between them, down from 96.6% — the field split more ways.

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