162. Poompuhar

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.6% to 3.8%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.2% between them, down from 90.9% — the field split more ways.

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