288. Chandgad

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 8.4% to 3.0%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 14.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 32.2% — it polled just 1.0% in 1980.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.3% between them, down from 91.4% — the field split more ways.

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