38. Chhatarpur

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 20.2% to 13.0%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 26.7% — it did not contest here in 1967.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.4% between them, down from 73.5% — the field split more ways.

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