78. Bagdaha

FBL held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.6% to 13.0%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 35.9% — it did not contest here in 1969.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.8% between them, down from 92.5% — the field split more ways.

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