32. Arakkonam

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.3% to 24.2%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 22.6% — it did not contest here in 1984.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.4% between them, down from 98.2% — the field split more ways.

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