474. Alipurduars

Rashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 28.5% to 5.6%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 46.3% — it did not contest here in 1980.
• Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.2% of the vote between them, up from 91.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
• TurnoutTurnout rose 11.4% to 72.8%.

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