94. Namakkal

All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.1% to 7.0%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 38.9% — it did not contest here in 2011.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.7% between them, down from 91.5% — the field split more ways.

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