26. Beypore

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 35.3% to 3.4%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 19.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerMUL (MUL) finished second with 41.3% — it did not contest here in 1967.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.9% between them, down from 92.2% — the field split more ways.

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