74. Palluruthy

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 6.5% to 1.0%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerICS (ICS) finished second with 45.5% — it did not contest here in 1991.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 91.9% between them, down from 97.5% — the field split more ways.

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