Congress held onto power for a third consecutive election.

The Indian National Congress won 52 of the 81 seats on offer.

That gave it a vote share of 46.9% — the slice of all ballots cast that went to one party or candidate.

Its closest rival, the Indian National Congress (Organisation), won seats in the state for the first time, taking 12.

The clearest shift this year was seats moving toward Congress from one of its regional rivals.

49 of the state's 81 seats changed hands from the previous election.

The single largest movement was 12 seats shifting from the Vishal Haryana Party to the INC.

That regional party's own seat count collapsed.

A handful of numbers from the results are worth knowing on their own.

The tightest finish was in Safidon, Haryana, decided by a margin — how far ahead the winner finished, in votes, over whoever came second — of just 108 votes.

The widest margin, by contrast, came in Dabwali, Haryana, where the winner finished 70.2% of the vote ahead.

Turnout — the share of registered voters who actually cast a ballot — was highest in Kaithal, Haryana, reaching 78.4%.

Faridabad, Haryana carried the largest electorate of any seat that year, with 98,377 people on the rolls.

This wasn't a new pattern for Congress by this point.

That made 3 elections in a row, counting this one.

Haryana was still a young state at this point, having been created only a few years earlier.