Congress Extends Its Run
What happened
The state's Indian National Congress held on to power for another term, extending a run of victories that stretched back years.
The INC kept its hold on the state assembly.
It won 220 of the assembly's 296 seats — a supermajority of the house.
Its closest rival, the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, won just 48 seats.
What changed
This was less a fresh mandate than a continuation of the ruling party's grip on the state assembly.
It stretched the party's own run of election wins in the state to 5 in a row.
Beneath that, swing data show 50 seats changing hands from the BJS.
Most of those seats went to the INC itself.
Notable numbers
A few numbers from that election stand out.
The tightest finish was Dabra, Madhya Pradesh, decided by a margin — how far ahead the winner finished, in votes, over whoever came second — of just 122.
At the other extreme, the winner in Sidhi, Madhya Pradesh took a margin of 75.0% of the vote.
Turnout — the share of registered voters who actually cast a ballot — peaked in Dhamtari, Madhya Pradesh at 73.2%.
The most voters in any single seat were in Govindpura, Madhya Pradesh, home to 1,01,016 registered voters.
The backdrop
This win kept the state assembly firmly under one party.