43. Tapi

UDF held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 32.0% to 30.4%.

Boundaries were redrawn between 1974 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 20.1% — it did not contest here in 1974.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.6% between them, down from 88.0% — the field split more ways.

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