229. Kanniyakumari

All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.2% to 0.1%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 17.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 62.7% between them, down from 90.4% — the field split more ways.

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