A third straight win, and a new option on the ballot
What happened
Bharatiya Janata Party won again, this time increasing its majority in a landslide.
BJP won 165 of the 230 seats, a supermajority of the assembly.
That was 22 more seats than it had won at the last election.
The Indian National Congress trailed with 58 seats.
What changed
This election added a new choice to the ballot: voters could formally reject every candidate instead of picking one.
The option was called NOTA — "None of the Above," a ballot option letting voters formally reject every candidate on offer.
1.9% of the vote went to it statewide.
BJP had also now won 3 elections in a row in the state.
Notable numbers
A few numbers from the results stand out.
The tightest race was Surkhi, Madhya Pradesh, decided by a margin — how far ahead the winner finished, in votes, over whoever came second — of just 141 votes.
Turnout — the share of registered voters who actually cast a ballot — peaked at 86.2% in Malhargarh, Madhya Pradesh.
The widest margin of the night was in Indore-2, Madhya Pradesh, where the winner finished 48.8% of the vote clear of the runner-up.
The largest electorate of any single seat was Indore-5, Madhya Pradesh, with 3,08,110 people registered to vote.
The backdrop
This extended the same party's winning run in the state.