34. Malappuram

MUL held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 41.8% to 38.8%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIcs (Scs) (ICSSCS) finished second with 24.2% — it did not contest here in 1982.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.3% between them, down from 93.2% — the field split more ways.

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