58. Ampatigiri

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 37.7% to 2.0%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 30.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerHPD (HPD) finished second with 31.2% — it did not contest here in 1978.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.3% between them, down from 89.0% — the field split more ways.

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