61. Cranganore

Communist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 6.4% to 1.0%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 44.2% — it did not contest here in 1967.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 89.4% between them, down from 96.6% — the field split more ways.

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