125. Udumalpet

All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 28.4% to 3.1%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 16.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerDravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) finished second with 41.6% — it did not contest here in 2011.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.3% between them, down from 93.3% — the field split more ways.
• TurnoutTurnout fell 4.7% to 73.6%.

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