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Seats by party
BJP: 47 seats (52.2%)INLD: 19 seats (21.1%)INC: 15 seats (16.7%)IND: 5 seats (5.6%)HJCBL: 2 seats (2.2%)BSP: 1 seats (1.1%)SAD: 1 seats (1.1%)46 for a majority9046 TO GOVERN
The story

A landslide, and a razor-thin majority

What happened

A new government took power here, winning as narrowly as a majority allows.

The Bharatiya Janata Party won 47 of the 90 seats.

That left it just 1 seat above the 46-seat mark needed to govern.

The runner-up, Indian National Lok Dal, won 19 seats.

What changed

The outgoing government's own seats saw a landslide collapse, one of the steepest in the state's electoral history.

That party was the Indian National Congress.

About 76.2% of registered voters turned out to cast a ballot, the highest ever recorded in the state.

The single biggest shift was 22 seats moving directly from the INC to the BJP.

Notable numbers

A few numbers from that election stand out.

The tightest finish was in Rai, Haryana, decided by a margin of just 3 votes — how far ahead the winner finished, in votes, over whoever came second.

The widest winning margin came in Karnal, Haryana, where the winner finished 45.4% of the vote ahead of the runner-up.

Ellenabad, Haryana recorded the highest turnout of any single seat, at 89.2%.

The most crowded ballot was in Bhiwani, Haryana, where 31 candidates stood for the seat.

The backdrop

Contests in this state have often stayed closer than this one did.

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