Congress won a comfortable majority in the first election held jointly across the whole of Andhra Pradesh.

The Indian National Congress took 177 of the 300 seats on offer.

That was 26 seats more than it needed for a majority.

Its nearest rival, the Independent, trailed far behind with 51 seats.

This was the first time voters across both Andhra and Telangana cast ballots for one shared state assembly.

Congress had now won 3 elections in a row here, counting this one.

5 parties ended up winning seats, and 51 more went to independent candidates.

A new conservative opposition party also won seats here for the first time.

A few numbers from that election stand out.

The closest race of the election was in Jangao, Andhra Pradesh, decided by just 11 votes — the margin, how far ahead the winner finished, in votes, over whoever came second.

At the other extreme, Dhone, Andhra Pradesh saw the widest margin of the election, with the winner ahead by 82.5% of the vote.

Turnout was highest in Mudinepalli, Andhra Pradesh, where 85.1% of registered voters turned out to cast a ballot.

Narasaraopet, Andhra Pradesh was the largest constituency by registered voters, with 85,187 names on the electoral roll.

This election completed the joint assembly that Andhra Pradesh's formation had set out to create.