159. Kattumannarkoil

Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.0% to 17.6%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerPattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) finished second with 27.7% — it did not contest here in 2021.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.1% between them, down from 92.0% — the field split more ways.

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