43. Leh

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 29.7% to 31.5%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 24.9% — it polled just 1.2% in 1983.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.3% between them, down from 98.8% — the field split more ways.

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