16. Kashipur

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 11.4% to 1.9%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerJNPSC (JNPSC) finished second with 40.1% — it did not contest here in 1977.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.0% between them, down from 89.6% — the field split more ways.

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