156. Kurinjipadi

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 8.8% to 3.5%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 15.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.1% between them, down from 93.3% — the field split more ways.

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