156. Hosannagar

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 6.8% to 5.1%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 36.6% — it did not contest here in 1967.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.2% between them, down from 86.0% — the field split more ways.

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