149. Raopura

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.0% to 9.0%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 29.0% — it polled just 0.2% in 1980.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.1% between them, down from 84.4% — the field split more ways.

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