130. Kovalam

Independent held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.0% to 4.7%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 32.0% — it did not contest here in 1967.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.7% between them, down from 96.5% — the field split more ways.

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