139. Madurai Central

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 26.7% to 5.1%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 14.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 43.8% — it did not contest here in 1967.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 92.7% between them, down from 99.1% — the field split more ways.

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