A landslide after the tie
What happened
This vote produced a landslide, a sharp contrast with the closely fought election before it.
The Indian National Congress won 43 of the 68 seats on offer.
Its vote share — the slice of all ballots cast that went to one party or candidate — was 41.0%.
The Bharatiya Janata Party finished a distant second, on 16 seats.
What changed
The same party stayed in charge, but this time with far more seats to spare.
35 of the state's 68 constituencies changed hands from the previous election.
18 of those flipped straight from the BJP to the INC.
The winning party's own seat count grew from 31 to 43.
Notable numbers
A few numbers from that election stand out.
Turnout also reached a new high for the state, at 74.4% — the share of registered voters who actually cast a ballot.
Una, Himachal Pradesh saw the tightest fight of the night, decided by a margin — how far ahead the winner finished, in votes, over whoever came second — of just 51 votes.
At the other extreme, Rampur, Himachal Pradesh was the most one-sided contest, with the winner ahead by 40.9% of the vote.
Kulu, Himachal Pradesh had the largest electorate of any seat that year, with 83,947 registered voters.
The backdrop
This was the state's return to a clear two-party contest after the previous election's split result.