23. Bahour

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.8% to 8.7%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerAll India N.R. Congress (AINC) finished second with 29.6% — it did not contest here in 2021.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.9% between them, down from 88.3% — the field split more ways.

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