22. Cotchery

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 12.9% to 1.0%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 19.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 35.0% — it polled just 1.0% in 1985.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.0% between them, down from 99.0% — the field split more ways.

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