34. Hospet

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 12.5% to 13.3%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 29.6% — it polled just 1.2% in 1978.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.4% between them, down from 95.3% — the field split more ways.

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