Telugu Desam returns to power
What happened
Power in the state assembly changed hands once again, as voters removed the sitting government.
The Telugu Desam Party won 216 of the 294 seats on offer, a landslide result.
Its nearest rival, the Indian National Congress, fell to just 26 seats — the very party it had just replaced in government.
That gave it a majority of 68 seats beyond what it needed to govern.
What changed
The party that had governed the state saw its support collapse, and its old rival returned to office.
135 seats moved from the INC to the TDP alone — the largest shift between any two parties that year.
It went from 74 seats to 216 in one election.
Notable numbers
A few numbers from that election are worth knowing on their own.
The tightest race was Mydukur, Andhra Pradesh, decided by a margin — how far ahead the winner finished, in votes, over whoever came second — of just 28 votes.
At the other extreme, Pulivendla, Andhra Pradesh was the most one-sided contest of the year, won by 64.4% of the vote.
Turnout — the share of registered voters who actually cast a ballot — was highest in Chintalapudi, Andhra Pradesh, where 84.4% of registered voters turned out.
The most crowded contest of the year was Badvel, Andhra Pradesh, where 39 candidates were on the ballot.
The backdrop
This continued a back-and-forth between the state's two largest parties, a pattern that had begun with this party's own debut victory.