43. Palghat

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.2% to 9.6%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 13.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 30.9% — it did not contest here in 1967.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.4% between them, down from 87.1% — the field split more ways.

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