86. Dabugam

Swatantra Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 10.9% to 9.5%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 16.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerUTC (UTC) finished second with 29.4% — it did not contest here in 1967.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.3% 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.