116. Tiruppur

All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 15.2% to 21.7%.

• New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 35.3% — it did not contest here in 1977.
• Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.3% of the vote between them, up from 67.1% — a tighter two-way contest.

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