403. Tehri Garhwal

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 43.8% to 3.0%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 25.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 35.1% — it polled just 1.2% in 1984.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.1% between them, down from 83.3% — the field split more ways.

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