A newly formed regional party won power in its very first election, forming government almost as soon as it entered the field.

The People's Conference won 22 of the 30 seats on offer, a landslide by any measure.

That left it 6 seats clear of the 16-seat majority mark.

Its nearest rival, the Independent, won 8 seats.

This was a striking debut: the party that won this election had not existed at the previous one.

It went from 0 seats to 22, more than enough for a comfortable majority.

2 parties ended up winning seats, with the rest going to independent candidates.

154 candidates in all contested the territory's 30 seats.

A few numbers from that election stand out.

The tightest race was in Kawrthah, Mizoram, decided by a margin — how far ahead the winner finished, in votes, over whoever came second — of just 51 votes.

At the other end, Buarpui, Mizoram saw the widest margin of the night, with the winner ahead by 64.2% of the vote.

About 81.5% of registered voters turned out to cast a ballot in Suangpuilawn, Mizoram, the highest of any seat in the territory that year.

The most crowded ballot was in Kawrthah, Mizoram, where 9 candidates stood.

Mizoram's politics at the time were shaped by the continued absence of one major movement from the ballot.