131. Ariyanad

Rashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.0% to 5.3%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 42.1% — it did not contest here in 1982.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 89.6% between them, down from 98.7% — the field split more ways.

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