96. Deodar

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 35.2% to 6.3%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 19.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerKLP (KLP) finished second with 31.2% — it did not contest here in 1972.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.8% between them, down from 79.1% — the field split more ways.

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