115. Palladam

All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 22.0% to 3.3%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.2% between them, down from 89.8% — the field split more ways.

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