38. Bahadurgarh

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.8% to 13.0%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerHLS (HLS) finished second with 33.3% — it did not contest here in 1957.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.5% between them, down from 97.7% — the field split more ways.

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