424. Varanasi

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 29.8% to 17.5%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 14.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerJS (JS) finished second with 22.5% — it did not contest here in 1957.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 62.5% between them, down from 78.9% — the field split more ways.

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