32. Malappuram

ML held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 46.2% to 26.8%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 18.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM) finished second with 27.3% — it did not contest here in 1960.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.5% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.

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