189. Belgaum

Independent held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.8% to 20.1%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 25.1% — it did not contest here in 1967.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.2% between them, down from 98.5% — the field split more ways.

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