A new party takes control
What happened
A new party won nearly every seat in the assembly, replacing the state's previous government entirely.
The Sikkim Sangram Parishad won 30 of the 32 seats — a supermajority in the state assembly.
The outgoing Sikkim Janata Parishad suffered a collapse, coming away with only a few seats.
The Indian National Congress finished a distant second, with just 1 seat of its own.
What changed
This was a genuine changeover: an entirely new party took full control of the state's government, unlike a shift between familiar rivals.
It hadn't existed at the previous election, going from 16 seats to 30.
Nearly every seat changed hands: 32 of the 32 constituencies compared flipped to a different party.
Notable numbers
A few numbers from the result stand out.
Sangha, Sikkim was the tightest race, decided by just 34 votes — the margin, how far ahead the winner finished over whoever came second.
Statewide, the SSP took 62.2% of the vote share — the slice of all ballots cast that went to one party or candidate.
At the other extreme, Khamdong, Sikkim had the widest margin of the night, with the winner ahead by 63.9%.
The most crowded ballot was in Gangtok, Sikkim, where 12 candidates stood.
The backdrop
The winning party was brand new, founded only the year before this election.
In 1984, Chief Minister Nar Bahadur Bhandari dissolved the Sikkim Janata Parishad, the party that had led Sikkim's government since 1979, and formed the Sikkim Sangram Parishad, which went on to win 30 of 32 seats in 1985 and all 32 seats it contested in 1989.