274. Suri

SUC held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.1% to 11.4%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 22.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 23.2% — it did not contest here in 1969.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 57.7% between them, down from 98.7% — the field split more ways.

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