Rajasthan's first-ever assembly election gave one party just enough seats to govern alone.

The Indian National Congress won 82 of the 160 seats on offer.

That left it just 1 seat above the number it needed for a majority.

Independent candidates came closest, taking 35 seats.

Some of the seats in that first election used a multi-member design, where one contest sent more than one member to the new assembly.

20 of the 140 constituencies worked this way.

Even so, 8 different parties won seats in the new house, a sign of how fragmented the contest was.

A few numbers from that first election stand out.

The closest race: Khanpur, Rajasthan was decided by just 2 votes, the narrowest margin — how far ahead the winner finished, in votes, over whoever came second — anywhere in the state that year.

At the other extreme, Shergarh, Rajasthan had the widest margin of the election, with 83.1% of the vote separating the winner from the runner-up.

The highest turnout of the election was in Kumher, Rajasthan, where 74.1% of registered voters turned out to cast a ballot.

The most crowded race was in Raisingh Nagar Karanpur, Rajasthan, where 15 candidates were on the ballot.

This snapshot came from Rajasthan in its earliest form, several years before the state reached its present boundaries.