167. Kozhikode

MUL held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.9% to 19.9%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 33.9% — it did not contest here in 1967.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.7% between them, down from 93.3% — the field split more ways.
• TurnoutTurnout fell 14.4% to 61.0%.

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