47. Alathur

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 30.3% to 29.7%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 32.0% — it did not contest here in 1967.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 93.7% 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.