25. Neravy-Grand Aldee

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 22.6% to 20.6%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerTMCM (TMCM) finished second with 26.3% — it did not contest here in 1996.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.3% between them, down from 84.3% — the field split more ways.

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