245. Ratnagiri

The seat changed hands: Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 27.5%.

• INC vote shareINC went from 29.8% to 48.9% of the vote here (+19.1%).
• New challengerPraja Socialist Party (PSP) finished second with 21.4% — it did not contest here in 1957.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.2% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
• TurnoutTurnout fell 2.2% to 43.0%.

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