68. Kalghatgi

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 75.4% to 6.0%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 38.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerLSS (LSS) finished second with 40.0% — it did not contest here in 1957.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.9% between them, down from 93.9% — the field split more ways.

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