28. Islampur

The seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 11.2%.

• INC vote shareINC went from 14.2% to 48.6% of the vote here (+34.4%).
• New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 37.4% — it did not contest here in 1977.
• Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.0% of the vote between them, up from 60.2% — a tighter two-way contest.

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