Even though Mr Dhinakaran claimed his party tilted the scales in 29 constituencies, a study by this correspondent reveals there were 20 seats wherein the votes polled by the AMMK and its allies were higher than the difference between the winner (DMK and allies) and the runner-up (AIADMK, Pattali Makkal Katchi [PMK] and the Bharatiya Janata Party [BJP])