195. Thiruparankundram

All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 11.6% to 12.5%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 31.5% — it did not contest here in 2016.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 75.4% between them, down from 83.0% — the field split more ways.
• TurnoutTurnout rose 2.1% to 72.7%.

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