186. Mannargudi

The seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 10.5%.

• DMK vote shareDMK went from 48.7% to 52.1% of the vote here (+3.4%).
• New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 41.5% — it did not contest here in 1967.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 93.6% between them, down from 98.8% — the field split more ways.

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