142. Madurai West

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.3% to 18.9%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 25.3% — it did not contest here in 1984.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.6% between them, down from 99.2% — the field split more ways.

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