73. Mattancherry

MUL held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 2.9% to 2.8%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 36.1% — it did not contest here in 1982.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 75.0% between them, down from 91.2% — the field split more ways.

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