202. Rudrapur

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.8% to 1.7%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 18.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 20.7% — it did not contest here in 1969.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 43.2% between them, down from 66.4% — the field split more ways.

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