Kerala's government changed hands again, continuing the pattern of the two fronts trading power.

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) won 38 of the 140 seats.

That left it short of the 71-seat majority mark — a hung house, where no single party wins enough seats to govern alone.

Together with its LDF front — an alliance, a group of parties that team up to fight an election together, and share power afterward if they win enough seats between them — it held 47.1% of the seats.

The runner-up, Indian National Congress, won 33 seats.

This also counted as a landslide: independent candidates, who had topped the last election, saw their combined support collapse sharply.

13 of those seats moved straight to the INC, the single biggest shift of the election.

Across the state, 71 of 140 seats changed hands from the previous election.

A few numbers from that election stand out.

The closest race was at Hosdrug, Keralam, decided by a margin of just 59 votes — how far ahead the winner finished, in votes, over whoever came second.

Tanur, Keralam had the widest margin of the year, with the winner finishing 46.6% of the vote ahead of the runner-up.

About 89.8% of registered voters turned out to cast a ballot at Aroor, Keralam, the highest share of any seat that year.

Ranni, Keralam drew the largest field of the election, with 21 candidates on the ballot.

This kept alive the back-and-forth between Kerala's two rival fronts.