155. Chandrapur

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 23.5% to 24.6%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 18.8% — it polled just 0.7% in 1985.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 62.2% between them, down from 81.7% — the field split more ways.

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