53. Bareilly City

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 17.2% to 11.5%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerJS (JS) finished second with 24.3% — it did not contest here in 1957.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 60.1% between them, down from 68.5% — the field split more ways.

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