23. Karaikal

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 48.9% to 17.2%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 24.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 76.6% between them, down from 93.1% — the field split more ways.

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