78. Ramagiri

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 10.2% to 5.3%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerJNPSC (JNPSC) finished second with 41.6% — it did not contest here in 1977.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.4% between them, down from 97.2% — the field split more ways.

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