196. Khanapur

Independent held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 27.3% to 20.4%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerKarnataka Rashtra Samithi (KRS) finished second with 25.2% — it did not contest here in 1985.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.7% between them, down from 80.3% — the field split more ways.

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