Congress ends TDP's run in power
What happened
Telugu Desam Party lost power, unseated by a rival that had spent years out of office.
Indian National Congress won 185 of the 294 seats on offer.
That was a landslide result — well clear of the 148-seat mark needed to govern.
Its closest single-party rival, TDP, collapsed to just 47 seats.
What changed
Much of that swing showed up directly in seats the previous ruling party had held.
115 constituencies that had backed TDP swung to INC alone — the single largest shift of the election.
A new regional party also broke through for the first time: TRS was among the parties to win a seat, going on to join the winning coalition.
Notable numbers
A few numbers from the results stand out.
The tightest race was Luxettipet, Andhra Pradesh, decided by just 166 votes — the margin, how far ahead the winner finished, in votes, over whoever came second, of any seat that year.
The widest margin of the election was in Charminar, Andhra Pradesh, where the winner finished 60.6% of the vote ahead of the runner-up.
Turnout — the share of registered voters who actually cast a ballot — was highest in Chintalapudi, Andhra Pradesh, at 86.7%.
The largest electorate of any single seat was Khairatabad, Andhra Pradesh, with 7,51,715 people registered to vote.
The backdrop
This kept alive a long-running pattern in which power has alternated between Telugu Desam Party and the Indian National Congress.