172. Bhokar

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 70.3% to 3.4%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 38.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerICS (ICS) finished second with 41.8% — it did not contest here in 1980.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.0% between them, down from 97.6% — the field split more ways.

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