191. Tamluk

BAC held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 52.2% to 39.4%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 24.4% — it did not contest here in 1969.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.3% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.

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