35. Kondotty

MUL held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.6% to 18.2%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 31.2% — it did not contest here in 1982.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.5% between them, down from 89.2% — the field split more ways.

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