116. Murtijapur

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.4% to 14.7%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 18.9% — it polled just 0.5% in 1978.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 52.5% between them, down from 78.1% — the field split more ways.

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