99. Bhawanipatna

Swatantra Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 59.2% to 37.2%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 28.4% — it did not contest here in 1971.
• Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.9% of the vote between them, up from 82.2% — a tighter two-way contest.

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