90. Salem (South)

All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 34.7% to 15.4%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 13.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.4% between them, down from 95.2% — the field split more ways.
• TurnoutTurnout fell 3.7% to 75.2%.

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