212. Omerga

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.6% to 9.2%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 13.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 28.0% — it polled just 1.3% in 1985.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.1% between them, down from 97.7% — the field split more ways.

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