134. Nagpur East

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 50.3% to 13.4%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 38.4% — it did not contest here in 1978.
• Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.1% of the vote between them, up from 77.4% — a tighter two-way contest.

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