205. Sivakasi

All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 24.2% to 8.4%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 15.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 35.3% — it did not contest here in 2011.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.0% between them, down from 94.2% — the field split more ways.
• TurnoutTurnout fell 7.2% to 73.9%.

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