A Congress-aligned party returns to power
What happened
Power changed hands again, with a Congress-aligned party returning to lead the state after a spell of Janata Party rule.
The Indian National Congress (I) won 133 of the 200 seats on offer, a landslide result.
That left it 32 seats past the majority mark it needed to govern alone.
Its nearest rival, the Bharatiya Janata Party, was left with 32 seats.
What changed
At the level of individual seats, this election reshuffled the state assembly almost completely.
Nearly every seat changed hands from that previous election: 199 of 200 went to a different party than before.
The Janata Party bore the brunt of that shift, with 97 of its seats moving to the INC(I).
Notable numbers
A few numbers from that election stand out.
The tightest finish was at Mahuwa, Rajasthan, decided by a margin of just 16 votes — how far ahead the winner finished, in votes, over whoever came second.
Aspur, Rajasthan had the widest margin of the year, with the winner finishing 52.6% of the vote ahead of the runner-up.
About 71.5% of registered voters turned out to cast a ballot at Srikaranpur, Rajasthan, the highest share of any seat that year.
Jayal, Rajasthan was the state's largest constituency by registered voters, with 4,76,419 names on the electoral rolls.
The backdrop
The party that had briefly governed Rajasthan before this election fell to second place this time.
Following the Janata Party's victory in the 1977 Rajasthan assembly election, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat was sworn in as Chief Minister on 22 June 1977, becoming the state's first non-Congress Chief Minister. His government was dismissed in 1980; he later served as Chief Minister again from 1990 to 1992 and from 1993 to 1998, this time as a Bharatiya Janata Party leader.