119. Perundurai

All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.4% to 6.2%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 14.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 37.1% — it did not contest here in 2001.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.5% between them, down from 90.3% — the field split more ways.

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