59. Dharmapuri

Pattali Makkal Katchi held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 12.4% to 8.8%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerTamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) finished second with 30.5% — it did not contest here in 2021.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.8% between them, down from 84.8% — the field split more ways.

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