202. Kadaladi

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.1% to 0.4%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 30.0% — it did not contest here in 1984.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 60.3% between them, down from 72.5% — the field split more ways.

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