42. Chengam

The seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to Janata Party (JNP), which now leads by 5.2%.

• JNP vote shareJNP went from 28.2% to 34.7% of the vote here (+6.5%).
• New challengerADKJL (ADKJL) finished second with 29.6% — it did not contest here in 1984.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.3% between them, down from 89.7% — the field split more ways.

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