A reorganized Congress sweeps back
What happened
This election delivered a commanding win for a reorganized Congress, defeating the party that had governed since the last election.
The Indian National Congress (I) won 186 of the 288 seats on offer — a landslide result.
That was 41 seats more than it needed for a majority.
The Indian National Congress (Urs), a rival Congress faction, was a distant second with 47 seats.
What changed
The party that had swept the previous election went into collapse, and most of its seats flipped straight to the winner this time.
60 seats swung directly from Janata Party to INC(I), the single biggest shift of the election.
The winning party's own seat count climbed from 69 to 186.
Notable numbers
A few numbers from the count stand out.
The closest race: Kandhar, Maharashtra was decided by just 55 votes — the margin, how far ahead the winner finished, in votes, over whoever came second.
The widest margin was at Kelapur, Maharashtra, where 72.1% of the vote separated the top two finishers.
Turnout was highest at Kagal, Maharashtra, where 80.9% of registered voters turned out to cast a ballot.
It was lowest at Umarkhadi, Maharashtra, where just 27.5% of voters cast a ballot.
The backdrop
The Congress party had recently split at the national level, and the faction that won this election was one of the two that emerged from that split.