24. Calicut- I

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 4.7% to 2.8%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 44.7% — it polled just 0.3% in 1980.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 92.3% between them, down from 99.7% — the field split more ways.

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