Power in the state assembly changed hands, as a new government took office.

The Indian National Congress (I) won 175 of the 294 seats on offer, a landslide result.

Its nearest rival, the Janata Party, took 60 seats.

That gave it a majority of 27 seats beyond what it needed to govern.

This was the first election held on an entirely new set of constituency boundaries.

That followed delimitation — the official redrawing of constituency boundaries, done every so often as India's population shifts.

The party that won this election hadn't existed at the state's previous assembly election, going from 0 seats to 175.

A few more numbers from that election are worth knowing.

The tightest race was Kaikalur, Andhra Pradesh, decided by a margin — how far ahead the winner finished, in votes, over whoever came second — of just 46 votes.

At the other extreme, Dichpalli, Andhra Pradesh was the most one-sided contest of the year, won by 53.9% of the vote.

Turnout — the share of registered voters who actually cast a ballot — was highest in Mudinepalli, Andhra Pradesh, where 84.4% of registered voters turned out.

Peddakurapadu, Andhra Pradesh had the largest electorate of any seat that year, with 1,29,475 people on the rolls.

This was the highest turnout the state had recorded to that point, even as voters replaced Indian National Congress entirely.