43. Manikchak

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.5% to 8.2%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 29.0% — it did not contest here in 1969.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.3% between them, down from 84.3% — the field split more ways.

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