69. Vadakkekara

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 18.1% to 3.1%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 45.5% — it did not contest here in 1980.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 94.1% 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.