262. Wai

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.1% to 15.8%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 22.9% — it polled just 0.8% in 1985.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 61.7% between them, down from 99.0% — the field split more ways.

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