344. Patiali

The seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 8.4%.

• INC vote shareINC went from 27.2% to 33.4% of the vote here (+6.3%).
• New challengerLKD (LKD) finished second with 25.0% — it did not contest here in 1977.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 58.5% between them, down from 70.5% — the field split more ways.

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