65. Kurinjipadi

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.9% to 3.7%.

Boundaries were redrawn between 1971 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 22.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 25.0% — it did not contest here in 1971.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 53.8% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.

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