230. Ahmednagar North

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 26.2% to 35.4%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerICS (ICS) finished second with 20.9% — it did not contest here in 1980.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.2% between them, down from 97.0% — the field split more ways.

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