The party that had long governed Mysore had split nationally into two rival Congress factions, and its wing here still won decisively.

The Indian National Congress won 165 of the 216 seats on offer, a landslide result by any reading.

Its nearest rival was the Indian National Congress (Organisation), which won 24 seats.

This win came under a different banner than the party's earlier ones here.

The victorious faction ran as INC(R), distinct from the undivided party of earlier years.

The party had now won 5 elections in a row in Mysore, going back to the state's first.

A few numbers from that election stand out.

The closest race: Mandya, Mysore was decided by a margin — how far ahead the winner finished, in votes, over whoever came second — of just 147.

At the other extreme, the winner in Mudigere, Mysore won by 73.8% of the vote over the runner-up.

The largest electorate was in Malleswaram, Mysore, where 1,20,653 people were registered to vote.

The most crowded contest was in Chikpet, Mysore, where 13 candidates stood for a single seat.

Both of the election's leading parties trace back to the same Congress organisation, which had split into rival national factions.