373. Sikandara Rao

Independent held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 7.1% to 7.1%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerRPI (RPI) finished second with 24.8% — it did not contest here in 1967.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 56.6% between them, down from 66.6% — the field split more ways.

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