57. Begun

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 7.5% to 8.3%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerRashtriya Rashtrawadi Party (RRP) finished second with 35.9% — it did not contest here in 1951.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.1% between them, down from 90.9% — the field split more ways.

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