27. Moirang

Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 3.1% to 0.2%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerMRP (MRP) finished second with 28.4% — it did not contest here in 1980.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 57.0% between them, down from 64.5% — the field split more ways.

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