118. Kanigiri

Telugu Desam Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 10.6% to 1.8%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 34.3% — it polled just 1.2% in 1983.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.5% between them, down from 85.9% — the field split more ways.

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