27. Chopra

The seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 23.2%.

Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.

• CPM vote shareCPM went from 36.2% to 42.4% of the vote here (+6.2%).
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 19.2% — it did not contest here in 1972.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 61.5% between them, down from 99.2% — the field split more ways.

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