A third win, but no majority
What happened
Indian National Congress won again, but its position weakened from before.
The INC won 88 of the 176 seats on offer.
That was down from the 119 seats it won last time.
Its closest challenger, the Swatantra Party, was contesting for the first time and won 36 seats.
What changed
The leading party fell just short of a majority this time, leaving a hung house — a result where no single party wins enough seats to govern alone.
The INC won 88 seats, short of the 89 it needed for a majority.
Even so, this extended INC's run to 3 wins in a row.
Notable numbers
A few numbers from that election stand out.
The closest race: Bundi, Rajasthan was decided by just 28 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, Jhalrapatan, Rajasthan had the widest margin of the election, with 68.9% of the vote separating the winner from the runner-up.
The highest turnout of the election was in Pushkar, Rajasthan, where 77.2% of registered voters turned out to cast a ballot.
The most crowded race was in Hawamahal, Rajasthan, where 16 candidates were on the ballot.
The backdrop
This election continued the same period of single-party rule in Rajasthan, without a change in government.