16. Sekmai

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.5% to 2.6%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 15.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerMPP (MPP) finished second with 26.8% — it did not contest here in 1984.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 56.3% between them, down from 79.4% — the field split more ways.

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