168. Kinwat

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 5.9% to 2.1%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerICS (ICS) finished second with 28.3% — it did not contest here in 1980.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 58.7% between them, down from 75.1% — the field split more ways.

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