A new leader's first big win
What happened
Bharatiya Janata Party won a wide majority, while its main rival's presence in the assembly shrank.
The BJP won 127 of the 182 seats on offer, a landslide result.
That was enough for a supermajority, 35 seats clear of what it needed to govern.
Its nearest rival, the Indian National Congress, was left with just 51 seats.
What changed
BJP expanded its edge this time, and most seats that changed hands moved toward it.
Its seat count grew from 117 to 127.
35 constituencies that had backed the INC swung to the BJP instead, out of 78 that changed hands.
The BJP has now won 3 elections in the state in a row.
Notable numbers
A few numbers from that election stand out.
The closest race: Umbergaon, Gujarat was decided by just 73 votes — the narrowest margin, how far ahead the winner finished, in votes, over whoever came second, anywhere in the state that year.
At the other extreme, Ellis Bridge, Gujarat was won by a margin of 56.2% of the vote.
Kadi, Gujarat recorded the highest turnout — the share of registered voters who actually cast a ballot — of any seat that year, at 79.4%.
Asarwa, Gujarat drew the most crowded ballot in the state, with 15 candidates standing.
The backdrop
This election followed a change in the state's top leadership the year before.
Narendra Modi was sworn in as Gujarat's chief minister on 7 October 2001, succeeding Keshubhai Patel, who resigned amid declining health and criticism of the state government's response to the January 2001 Bhuj earthquake. Modi entered the legislature via a February 2002 by-election before leading the BJP into the December 2002 general election.