Bihar's first-ever assembly election delivered a one-sided win for one party.

The Indian National Congress won 239 of the 330 seats on offer.

That was 73 seats more than it needed for a majority, enough to call it a landslide.

Its nearest rival, the Jharkhand Party, won just 32 seats.

This was also the first election held on Bihar's own assembly map.

Some of that first election's constituencies used a multi-member design, where the same contest sent more than one member to the new assembly.

54 of the 276 constituencies worked this way.

In total, 10 different parties won at least one seat in the new house.

A few numbers from that first count stand out.

The closest race: Sursand, Bihar was decided by just 2 votes — the narrowest margin, how far ahead the winner finished, in votes, over whoever came second, of any seat that year.

At the other extreme, Islampur, Bihar had the widest margin of the election, with 80.4% of the vote separating the winner from the runner-up — measured as a share of the vote rather than in votes.

The best turnout of the election was in Ekangarsarai, Bihar, where 75.6% of registered voters turned out to cast a ballot.

The most crowded contest was Nawada Cum Hasua, Bihar, where 18 candidates were on the ballot.

This was Bihar's very first election under its own assembly, so there was no earlier result anywhere in the state to compare it against.