60. Pappireddippatti

All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 6.2% to 6.1%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerPattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) finished second with 29.5% — it did not contest here in 2011.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.0% between them, down from 84.6% — the field split more ways.
• TurnoutTurnout rose 4.9% to 85.8%.

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