137. Kulithalai

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 11.9% to 0.3%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 18.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerTamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) finished second with 32.3% — it did not contest here in 2021.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.9% between them, down from 90.2% — the field split more ways.

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