85. Taramangalam

Pattali Makkal Katchi held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.3% to 8.6%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 21.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) to Independent (IND).
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 60.6% between them, down from 90.9% — the field split more ways.

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