Madhya Pradesh's election that year produced a hung house — a result where no single party wins enough seats to govern alone.

Indian National Congress remained the largest party, winning 142 of the 288 seats.

That fell short of the 145-seat majority mark.

All India Bhartiya Jan Sangh finished a distant second with 41 seats.

This was the first Madhya Pradesh election in which every constituency elected just one member, ending the multi-member design used in earlier elections.

All 288 constituencies elected a single member that year.

A few numbers from that election stand out.

Morena, Madhya Pradesh was decided by just 2 votes — the smallest margin, how far ahead the winner finished, in votes, over whoever came second, of any seat that year.

At the other extreme, Bijawar, Madhya Pradesh was won by the widest margin of any seat that year, measured as a share of the vote rather than in votes: 80.3%.

Burhanpur, Madhya Pradesh saw the highest turnout — the share of registered voters who actually cast a ballot — of any seat that year, at 74.2%.

The largest electorate of any constituency that year was in Bhilai, Madhya Pradesh, with 82,004 registered voters.

Even without a majority, the same party that had led Madhya Pradesh since its first election remained the largest in the assembly.

The party had now won 3 elections in a row in the state.