This assembly election produced a hung house — a result where no single party wins enough seats to govern alone.

The Sikkim Janata Parishad led the field, winning 16 of the 32 seats on offer.

That left it just short of the 17-seat mark needed for a majority.

Its closest rival, the Sikkim Congress (R), won 11 seats.

The leading party came within a single seat of a majority, but the rest of the assembly was split among a handful of smaller parties and one independent.

4 parties won seats in all, and 1 more went to an independent candidate.

Even so, no party reached the 17-seat majority mark.

A few numbers from the results stand out.

The closest race: Ranka, Sikkim was decided by just 19 votes — the margin, how far ahead the winner finished over whoever came second, one of the tightest finishes of the election.

At the other end, Sangha, Sikkim saw the widest margin of the night, with the winner ahead by 88.4% of the vote.

About 61.7% of registered voters turned out to cast a ballot across the state.

The most crowded ballot was in Gangtok, Sikkim, where 17 candidates stood for the seat.

This election came soon after a major change in the region's status within India.

Sikkim had only recently become a full state of the country.