32. Dadar

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 6.6% to 4.9%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 22.5% — it polled just 0.2% in 1980.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 49.9% between them, down from 60.2% — the field split more ways.

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