168. Sirsi

Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.4% to 8.5%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.3% between them, down from 97.0% — the field split more ways.

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