25. Calicut- Ii

IML held the seat; the winning margin widened from 7.0% to 8.4%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 41.3% — it did not contest here in 1980.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 91.1% 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.