40. Khammam

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 29.5% to 4.4%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 16.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerTPS (TPS) finished second with 32.5% — it did not contest here in 1967.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.5% between them, down from 76.7% — the field split more ways.
• TurnoutTurnout fell 7.3% to 68.5%.

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