2. Kasaragod

MUL held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 32.5% to 13.4%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 16.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 29.6% — it did not contest here in 1980.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.6% between them, down from 87.4% — the field split more ways.

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