144. Manachanallur

All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 12.3% to 4.2%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.2% between them, down from 94.0% — the field split more ways.
• TurnoutTurnout fell 2.0% to 82.0%.

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