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Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.6% to 2.3%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) finished second with 43.7% — it did not contest here in 2001.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 89.7% between them, down from 95.2% — the field split more ways.

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