Janata Dal lost power in a landslide, defeated by a party making its own comeback.

The Indian National Congress won 80 of the 147 seats on offer.

That was well clear of the 74-seat mark needed to govern alone.

Its rival, the JD, suffered a collapse, falling from power to just 46 seats.

This was also a striking recovery: the winning party had held only a handful of seats last time.

It went from 10 seats to 80 seats between the two elections.

Turnout — the share of registered voters who actually cast a ballot — also jumped sharply, rising by +16.1 pp to reach about 71.6%, the highest share Odisha had recorded up to that point.

A few numbers from that election stand out.

Even with a majority of seats, the INC won just 39.1% of the vote share — the slice of all ballots cast that went to one party or candidate.

The closest race: Bhawanipatna, Odisha was decided by just 69 votes — the margin, how far ahead the winner finished, in votes, over whoever came second.

At the other extreme, Rayagada, Odisha produced the widest margin of the election, at 47.7% of the vote.

Bhubaneswar, Odisha stood out at both ends: it had the lowest turnout of the year, at 57.9%, and the largest number of registered voters of any seat, at 3,10,651.

Beyond the top two finishers, a handful of smaller parties and independents rounded out the assembly.

In all, 7 parties won seats, alongside 6 independents.