191. Navalgund

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.9% to 16.5%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerKarnataka Rashtra Samithi (KRS) finished second with 26.3% — it did not contest here in 1985.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.1% between them, down from 92.8% — the field split more ways.

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