342. Mainpuri

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.4% to 2.2%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerLKD (LKD) finished second with 26.5% — it did not contest here in 1980.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 55.2% between them, down from 65.9% — the field split more ways.

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