184. Karaikudi

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 9.1% to 10.2%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• Runner-up changedSecond place passed from All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 61.3% between them, down from 83.7% — the field split more ways.
• TurnoutTurnout fell 4.1% to 66.2%.

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