20. Meluri

NND held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 7.5% to 7.1%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 17.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 29.4% — it did not contest here in 1982.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.0% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.

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